Random screen flickering while watching videos.

This has always been an issue for me, both on my 2015 MBP 2.8, and now my 2017 Macbook 1.4 but only in the Google Chrome browser.

It seems like a compatibility issue between Chrome and OSX. The hardware acceleration setting didn't help at all. It doesn't happen all of the time but it happens 25% of the time maybe. Gifs, videos etc. Reddit, youtube etc. Refreshing the page a few times fixes it. Sometimes it stops on it's own.

Apple support just blamed it on Chrome and told me to use something else. It's just annoying and I wish there was a solution other than to switch browsers. I like Chrome a lot and I'd rather not have to change to Firefox just because of this one stupid problem that I'm sure can be fixed on somebodies end.

Hello everyone, I am also a 13" Early 2015 Intel Iris 6100 Macbook Pro user who also suffers from the same problem as you guys, mainly YouTube (Opera Browser,) and Discord. Stuff like that mostly happens whenever I do some moderate, if not heavy multitasking. Shot out a post later today, a user by the name of Kappy recommended that I reset my entire Mac, and it obviously did not work out. We should definitely shoot out a report to Apple to fix this bug by the time Apple releases macOS 10.14, if not earlier.

https://1drv.ms/v/s!AoAuWMFZpVYShDBtweDlMIeiZ4Ku

Video showing the exact same problem that sdbrown000 had, recorded via screen recorder. Definitely a sign that it's some faulty software bug, not sure if it's the GPU itself or its drivers. Sorry if the rec. quality is bad.

I have this exact issue. While I watch any videos on full screen there are weird graphical glitches. Also, when I minimize the screen white flash-like, static flicker appears for 0.5 seconds. Did anyone fix this issue, please inform us.

I’m having the same problem. Only Netflix as I can tell. I use safari as my browser. I’ve also noticed the snow- black and white static screen when I first open my MacBook after not having used it for a couple minutes. I have the 2017 MacBook Pro with touch bar. When watching Netflix full screen, it will go black for about a half second and then go back to normal and repeats every 20 seconds or so. Suggestions?

After months around it with the same issue I think I've found a solution.

When watching Netflix press Control+Option+Shift+S and it will show a setting menu.

You just need to lock one CDN option/provider and click Override.

You problem should be fixed now 🙂

Enjoy

Hey there! I have been facing this exact same issue with probably the same MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015, 128GB SSD). You can check my comments in these threads:

• Full-screen Netflix video playback bug???
• Re: Flickering on Netflix after Sierra update

So far, no solutions. But I've been using Firefox for Netflix playback and I didn't face any issues.

Hey there! I'm glad to hear it's working for you.

I've tried playing on Safari again for a few minutes but I'm still seeing the issues (apparently it took a bit longer to happen). Did you update any software or changed anything?

Hey i recently purchased a macbook pro 15 retina and after updating it to sierra i have been facing exactly the same issues and could not seem to find a workaroud rather than using firefox. Anything you could find?

Nearly a week later, and no news, unfortunately. All we can confirm is that this is happening with Early 2015 MBPs, as seen in these three threads:

• Random screen flickering while watching videos. (this one)
• Full-screen Netflix video playback bug???
• Re: Flickering on Netflix after Sierra update

Firefox has been running very well, but I'd still like to watch Netflix in Safari. I wonder, is there any way we can reach Apple for a better support in this issue?

Sorry to hear that the problem is back! Here's a summary of what we've got so far:

Issue

- Netflix flickering

- Netflix videos rewind like a VHS for about a second

- Happens in medium intervals, from 30 seconds up to 2 minutes

- Happens exclusively on Safari and on Chrome fullscreen

- Moving the mouse to the top of the screen to show the menu bar (hence not being full screen)

- In some devices, changing the resolution from "default for display" to "scaled" and selecting something different than default removes flickering

- Reboot in recovery mode, NVRAM reset and SMC reset didn't work

- Only "solution" so far has been playing on Firefox

- Affects mostly 2015 MacBook Pros, but we have reports of 2015 MacBooks (12-inch) and 2011 MacBook Pros (13-inch, non-retina)

Discussion threads

- Random screen flickering while watching videos.

- Full-screen Netflix video playback bug???

- Re: Flickering on Netflix after Sierra update

- Re: flickering screen while playing netflix

Reported devices with the issue

- MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) (Awesomedude415)

- MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015, 128GB SSD) (grpires)

- MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch) (teamkillerkk)

- MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) (Shinigami195)

- MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015, 128GB SSD) (plantbased)

- MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015, 512GB SSD) (gabrillo)

- MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) (mathisiak)

- MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) (rfr.ferreira)

- MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015, 256GB SSD) (plasticdoughnut)

- MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) (Tobiasfl)

- MacBook (Retina, 12-inch, Early 2015)

- MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) (sepzozo)

- MacBook Pro (Non-retina, 15-inch, 2011) (broncodude37)

I've been having this same issue on several websites not just netflix. It happens on facebook, reddit and others. Once I had the 'new-tab' page on safari in the background doing it. I've taken a video with my phone to demonstrate my problem.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/iz07nlbwr334bba/IMG_0667.MOV?dl=0