flickering screen while playing netflix

I had this on my rmbp 13 2016 without touchbar and all I had to do to fix the problem was turn off automatically adjust brightness in the Display settings. Hope this helps someone... I appear to be the only 2016 model to have experienced this????

I have this issue currently - the video seems to "jump" to the left and then jump back in a split second, about every minute or so when watching Netflix full screen in safari. Same model - 13" MacBook Pro Retina.

Currently running 10.12.1 (16B2657) and will now try a system update.

I wish I could try that, since it sounds like a potential solution for the problem. But it looks like the option to disable this is no longer available on macOS High Sierra v.10.13.1, or am I mistaken?

I wish I could try that, since it sounds like a potential solution for the problem. But it looks like the option to disable this is no longer available on macOS High Sierra v.10.13.1, or am I mistaken?

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Hey there! It appears you are facing the same issues as the ones described in the following threads:

• Random screen flickering while watching videos.
• Flickering on Netflix after Sierra update
• Full-screen Netflix video playback bug???

This bug appears to happen exclusively on Early 2015 MBPs, as seen in the thread discussions.

@jeremy_v, we've attempted lots of possible solutions to no avail. It still happens to us MBP owners and it's really disappointing that such a new device is receiving this kind of issue. Is there any way Apple could give us a deeper support in this issue?

Thanks

I am also experiencing this issue, but I am using a 2011 MBP 15 non-retina anti-glare display running el capitan 10.11.4, so this problem extends beyond just the 2015 models.

That's interesting, broncodude37, yours is the first case of a non-retina MacBook... 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)

Nope, 10.12.4 (16E195) didn't fix - now seeing occasional flashes of inverted rainbow colours during playback after the update, possibly less frequently. Anyone have any other suggestions?

Hello

I also have the issue, but disabling the automatic graphic switch (between the intel chipset and the GPU) solved it.
So it seems to be something related to the intel HD graphics I believe.

Disabling night shift colours also seems to fix it.