Issue 46125 in chromium: change background from grey to black on video playback

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Status: Unconfirmed
Owner: ----
Labels: Type-Bug Pri-2 Area-Undefined

New issue 46125 by tommarnk: change background from grey to black on video
playback
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=46125

Chrome Version : 6.0.422.0 (Official Build 48573) dev
URLs (if applicable) : local
Other browsers tested: no
Add OK or FAIL after other browsers where you have tested this issue:
Safari 4:
Firefox 3.x:
IE 7:
IE 8:

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. open a webm file or any supported video file in chrome
2. play it
3. go to fullscreen with F11

What is the expected result?
black background so you dont get distracted by grey background! :D

What happens instead?
grey background that messes up the whole experience :(

Please provide any additional information below. Attach a screenshot if
possible.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Updates:
Status: Started
Owner: fbarch...@chromium.org
Labels: -Area-Undefined Area-Internals Internals-Video webm

Comment #1 on issue 46125 by fbarch...@chromium.org: change background from

grey to black on video playback
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=46125

Do you mean with the default UI? As in, when you point directly to a webm
file?
If so, confirmed.
Screenshot attached.

The proper solution would be real full screen support.
The code for the UI lives in
src\chromium\src\third_party\WebKit\WebCore\rendering\RenderThemeChromiumWin.cpp
Color RenderThemeChromiumWin::platformInactiveSelectionBackgroundColor()
const
{
if (ChromiumBridge::layoutTestMode())
return Color(0x99, 0x99, 0x99); // Medium gray.
COLORREF color = GetSysColor(COLOR_GRAYTEXT);
return Color(GetRValue(color), GetGValue(color), GetBValue(color),
0xff);
}

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Comment #2 on issue 46125 by tommarnk: change background from grey to black

on video playback
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=46125

yes the default gui when playing a video file directly in chrome, the
background is grey not black

not related to HTML5 or Youtube HTML5
its related to local or direct url to file on server playback
like http://mysite.com/myvideofile.webm or E:\downloads\myvideofile.webm

exacy same in Chromium 6.0.433 aka where i took screenshot

best regards
Tommy

Attachments:
videoplaybackgreybackground.jpg 284 KB

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Comment #3 on issue 46125 by tommarnk: change background from grey to black

on video playback
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=46125

when i encoded a video to webm and no crop, i noticed the grey background
alot more compared to the other video that was crop off black bars, check
the new screenshot i did

you can try it here
http://s3.nwgat.net/sintel/sintel_trailer_720p_vp8_vorbis.webm

Attachments:
Capture064.jpg 103 KB

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Updates:
Status: Assigned

Comment #6 on issue 46125 by fbarch...@chromium.org: change background from

grey to black on video playback
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=46125

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Updates:
Owner: scher...@chromium.org

Comment #7 on issue 46125 by fbarch...@chromium.org: change background from

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Comment #9 on issue 46125 by kenm...@google.com: change background from

grey to black on video playback
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=46125

I agree gray is distracting... especially when the video goes very dark the
gray background pops forward. I tried #050505 which is just barely
perceptibly not as black as black... but even that felt wrong to be lighter
than black frames of the video. #000000 seems our only choice here.