Blurry YouTube thumbnails text

[MrMuFa5a]

MrMuFa5a last edited by MrMuFa5a

Hello

Windows 10 21H2 19044.2130.
Opera Your version is 92.0.4561.21 fresh install.

Test sample TheDarkSomnium.

Screenshots (issue looks more clear in YouTube especially red text):
chrome->brave->opera:

Image tested (link directly form YouTube):
Chrome:

Brave:

Opera:

The problem (maybe), after lengthy test*, I try fiddling around with youtube css (image-rendering: , transform: , etc.) with not results, them notice in Chrome and Brave the thumbnails generated links are the same, but for some reason the link generated in/for opera is different :

Chrome:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gCI1L0gP-vk/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEcCNACELwBSFXyq4qpAw4IARUAAIhCGAFwAcABBg==&rs=AOn4CLA0Ge8zxVdfumWWgVA3OjLPJ4-_FA
Brave:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gCI1L0gP-vk/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEcCNACELwBSFXyq4qpAw4IARUAAIhCGAFwAcABBg==&rs=AOn4CLA0Ge8zxVdfumWWgVA3OjLPJ4-_FA
Opera:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gCI1L0gP-vk/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEjCNACELwBSFryq4qpAxUIARUAAAAAGAElAADIQj0AgKJDeAE=&rs=AOn4CLAUz6VUtsyrv5VZcfRvtnYM48ymHA

That explain why nothing works, the problem is Youtube/Opera compatibility at some level.

Reproduce on opera 69, 88, 89, 91, also in opera portable 91, 92.

*[
Try:
-Angle and gpu flags (Opengl, D3D9, vulkan, Accelerated 2D canvas, GPU rasterization, etc.), no results.
-NVidia control panel, no results.
-Rolling back Nvidia drivers. no results.
-Trying previous versions(69, 88, 89, 91), no results.
-windows creating a new user profile, no anti-virus or other programs running, no results.
-in other pc (windows 7 home premium, intel graphics) same results.
]

Thanks.

[alobpreis]

alobpreis @MrMuFa5a last edited by alobpreis

@mrmufa5a I can't tell you why this happens, but what I did notice is that if you download the first two, the file is a .webp one (which might be a lossless image like PNG, or just with better compression), and the Opera one is a jpg, with clearly not the best compression rate. So basically that's why you see the blurry red text: jpg compression.
Now, why Opera goes that path, I have no clue. But for sure, there's no need to play with drivers or antivirus.

PS: This post reminded me of this other one, and -oh surprise-, it's yours too.
https://forums.opera.com/topic/56658/blurry-images

[MrMuFa5a]

MrMuFa5a @alobpreis last edited by

@alobpreis said in Blurry YouTube thumbnails text:

@mrmufa5a I can't tell you why this happens, but what I did notice is that if you download the first two, the file is a .webp one (which might be a lossless image like PNG, or just with better compression), and the Opera one is a jpg, with clearly not the best compression rate. So basically that's why you see the blurry red text: jpg compression.
Now, why Opera goes that path, I have no clue. But for sure, there's no need to play with drivers or antivirus.

notice that too today (webp and jpg), also if you delete all the hash after jpg, in youtube with dev tools/inspect element the blurriness goes away.

(
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gCI1L0gP-vk/hqdefault.jpg
all this
[?sqp=-oaymwEjCNACELwBSFryq4qpAxUIARUAAAAAGAElAADIQj0AgKJDeAE=&rs=AOn4CLAUz6VUtsyrv5VZcfRvtnYM48ymHA]
)

PS: This post reminded me of this other one, and -oh surprise-, it's yours too.
https://forums.opera.com/topic/56658/blurry-images

Yup, that old post, the issue was blur small images in all pages, was an issue with opera versions 72 to 87 was fix in ver. 88 .