Video Player Flickering

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Description of the issue:
When I start any video player on youtube or twitch for example, my screen flickers! This issue doesn’t happen on other browsers.

Steps to Reproduce (add as many as necessary): 1. 2. 3.

  1. Go to twitch.tv
  2. Click on random streamer
  3. Go into fullscreen

Actual Result (gifs and screenshots are welcome!):
Screen starts to flicker

Expected result:
The video/stream should play normally without flickering

Reproduces how often:
Everytime

Operating System and Brave Version(See the About Brave page in the main menu):
Windows 10 20h1
Brave v 1.25.68

Additional Information:
None

Hey Scraayp,

Disable hardware acceleration in brave://settings/system and see if that fixes the problem.

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