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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Oct 2017
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OS: Windows
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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Downscaled videos appear jagged and lose detail

Reported by leoxd.m...@gmail.com, Oct 14 2017

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/61.0.3163.100 Safari/537.36

Example URL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBOfTafKqy8

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Go to a video with small details (eg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBOfTafKqy8)
2. Select a resolution that's larger than the viewport (eg 4K video in a 480p viewport)

What is the expected behavior?
The video quality stays the same or gets better than viewing a matching video resolution in the viewport.

What went wrong?
Video starts looking jagged, details disappear (screenshots shows 2nd guitar from the left in the linked video)

Did this work before? N/A 

Is it a problem with Flash or HTML5? HTML5

Does this work in other browsers? No
 MS Edge 40.15063.674.0; Firefox 58.0a1 

Chrome version: 61.0.3163.100  Channel: stable
OS Version: 10.0
Flash Version: 

Contents of chrome://gpu:
 
4kin480.png
7.7 KB View Download
720in480.png
6.6 KB View Download
480in480.png
11.2 KB View Download
Labels: Needs-Triage-M61
Cc: vamshi.k...@techmahindra.com
Components: -Internals>Media Internals>Media>Video
Labels: Triaged-ET Hotlist-GoogleApps
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)
Able to reproduce the issue on the reported chrome version stable 61.0.3163.100 and it also be seen on firefox. It's not specific to chrome browser, adding appropriate labels for further triage.

Thanks! 
Components: Internals>Compositing
IIRC this is the best that we can get with the GL_LINEAR scaling we specify, to do better we'll have to switch to a custom shader for scaling.

Comment 4 by ericrk@chromium.org, Oct 20 2017

Status: WontFix (was: Untriaged)
I think this is working as intended. A higher-quality downscale could increase power and reduce performance, so I'm not sure that it's an easy decision to just use a higher quality scaler.
Labels: -Hotlist-GoogleApps Hotlist-Partner-GSuite

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