Playback Errors in Google Chrome / Hardware Acceleration

If you're experiencing playback errors while using Google Chrome as your browser, here's something you can try. There is currently a bug in Chrome on Windows, and this may fix your issue:

 

1) Open Chrome and type, chrome://flags

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2) Scroll about a quarter of the way down the page and click 'Disable' in the 'Hardware-accelerated video decode' box.  By default, this feature will already be on and the box/row will be gray; Disabling it will make the box/row white.  You want it to be white.

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3) Close and restart the browser.

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