White filter on top of youtube videos.
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Decker177 last edited by
As you can see from the screenshots below, I do not have dark mode enabled and I still have the white overlay on all videos. Animated gifs are fine. Webm, Youtube and streaming services such as Netflix or Prime Video all have this white filter overlay.
When first installing, I did select dark mode (experimental) on. Would that have caused it?
I have tried turning all versions of dark mode off to test it. I went into "opera://flags" and changed the dark mode to "Enabled with selective inversion of non-image elements". Nothing seems to change it.Any tips?
I'm using an GT72 2QE laptop
BIOS: E1781IMS Ver:3.10
Operating System: Windows 10 Home 64-bit (10.0, Build 19043) (19041.vb_release.191206-1406)
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5700HQ CPU @ 2.70GHz
Memory: 24576MB RAM
Page File: 11907MB used, 15177MB available
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@decker177 For YouTube, try using its own dark theme. or light if you prefer.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@decker177 Make a test standalone installation of Opera GX to a folder named "Opera Test" on your desktop. Does that Opera GX behave fine at least?
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Decker177 last edited by
@leocg It's not just Youtube. It's all video players on Opera GX. I did try to turn on youtube dark mode and it still has the white overlay. I do not have this on any other browser, just this one.
@burnout426 I did a stand alone install and the problem still persists. I even selected a light theme off the bat. I've adjusted the gamma through windows itself and it hasn't helped. Only Opera GX is doing this. Every other browser is fine.
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Decker177 last edited by
Finally found the issue. I went through every conceivable brightness setting offered through Windows, my laptop settings, and Nvidia's control panel. Found mine in Nvidia Control Panel Under "Video" > "Adjust video color settings". I switched it back to "with video player settings" and now the white washout is completely gone. My laptop was naturally dark so I was trying to turn up brightness through whatever means I could find since the display itself was at 100%.
There are about 3 different places in Windows 10 where you can adjust your brightness through software means.
1st I'll list is the one I used to fix my issue above. There is another in the Nvidia control panel. "Display" > "Adjust Desktop color settings". Note the extra tabs. Not sure of the Radeon GUI but I'm sure they have something similar.
2nd Easiest is located in your Notification bar at the corner of your start menu. A sliding bar with a sun next to it.
3rd Bit more complex. In the control panel there is "Color Management". You can type that into your search bar and pull it up that way, as well. Within Color Management window, click on "Advanced" tab and click "Calibrate Display". It walks you through a special monitor calibration that is independent of the default windows one.
Since I've never seen any conglomerate for editing colors and brightness in Windows, I thought I would throw in this explanation. Please forgive my diatribe as I'll likely refer back to this.
Why does this setting only affect Opera GX video player? Nothing else, including any video players I have installed, was affected. Funky. Hope this helps others.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@decker177 said in White filter on top of youtube videos.:
Why does this setting only affect Opera GX video player?
Not sure, but Opera GX uses the Windows Media Foundation for playback support for some media while Chrome for example does not. Could explain the difference, but that's just a guess.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@faiizy See if https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/wiki/opera/dark_mode_settings helps explain things.
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BRXN last edited by
I found a solution that was really easy it worked for me but cant say the same for you but worth a try.
you select the config on dark pages 
there should be youtube on the bottom one then you press the three dots on the side and remove it. It worked for me hope it worked for you too -
CasualZade last edited byFor all the people here using Opera GX, easiest way to get rid of this annoying thing is by disabling force dark pages. Go to the easy setup and look for a "Force dark pages" and press Configure below it. Then you can see the able and disable, put youtube in the disable list and then boom, it's gone. I was also very annoyed by this, but I figured it out by doing this. IF this doesn't work for you, well.. idk but this is the way that I found.
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DwightShnoot last edited by
@casualzade thank you so much. Fixed it instantly. For anyone else seeing this typing youtube.com doesn't work. Need to type "www.youtube.com"
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Zumbo last edited by@casualzade I have force dark pages on and I know where the setting is, but the "configure" option isnt even there for me. I just downloaded opera gx like 40 mins ago so I dont think its any issue with being outdated or something. Anyone have an Idea as to why I cant see it? Heres my view:
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scaredfizz last edited by
@tetika-0 the problem is using youtube dark theme in youtube settings instead of Opera GX dark theme, try to turn it off
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cafo98 last edited by
@an0nymous I checked all this page...and the only thing it worked is this link: https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/wiki/opera/dark_mode_settings/
more specific: Opera GX also allows you to force pages into dark mode by applying its own dark theme to pages. To control this, there's a global "Force Dark Pages" option at the URL opera://settings/opera-gx. But, you can also override the global on a per-site basis by right-clicking a page and choosing "Force Dark Page" or "Disable force dark page". And, to get a view of all sites that are overriding the global, you can goto the URL opera://settings/content/forceDarkMode. Note though that forcing a page to be dark when a page is already displaying as dark because of its own theme and or an extension you have installed can cause page colors to look weird. So, if you have problems with colors, always check your dark mode extensions, the page's theme, and Opera's dark mode settings to make sure you're only using one method of darkness.
