Black Screen When Watching Netflix Or Facebook Videos

oldbushie

I keep having an issue where my monitor will go completely black for a few seconds, as if I'm either having a video driver crash or a source input change, when watching Netflix or Facebook videos. I have an Nvidia Geforce RTX 2080 Ti and an AMD Ryzen 9 CPU. My monitor is an HP ZR30w. This is a brand new computer with a fresh install of Vivaldi - the only thing I imported was bookmarks. Extensions are disabled. I don't see these issues happening in other browsers, so I suspect it's particular to Widevine. Unfortunately, I can't get it to happen consistently, but it's very frequent.

Also, I've had the monitor for 10 years without any issues, but I did recently have to switch to the Display Port instead of DVI since newer video cards don't have DVI. Could that be part of the problem? Unfortunately, it doesn't have HDMI input.

Is anyone else seeing this issue?

Komposten

Does this happen when you start/resume the video, or randomly while it is playing?

I have occasional issues where starting/resuming a video will black out my screen for a few seconds, but after I can watch the video just fine. There used to be an issue with AMD graphics drivers a few months back which cased the screen to go completely black when opening web pages with certain content, making it impossible to use YouTube e.g. (it went black for as long as you were on certain Youtube videos), but since that was fixed with a driver update I thought that my current issue (black screen for a few seconds after starting/resuming a video) was also AMD driver related. But if you have the same issue on an Nvidia card then it might actually be a Chromium/Vivaldi bug rather than driver issue.

oldbushie

@Komposten said in Black Screen When Watching Netflix Or Facebook Videos:

Does this happen when you start/resume the video, or randomly while it is playing?

I have occasional issues where starting/resuming a video will black out my screen for a few seconds, but after I can watch the video just fine. There used to be an issue with AMD graphics drivers a few months back which cased the screen to go completely black when opening web pages with certain content, making it impossible to use YouTube e.g. (it went black for as long as you were on certain Youtube videos), but since that was fixed with a driver update I thought that my current issue (black screen for a few seconds after starting/resuming a video) was also AMD driver related. But if you have the same issue on an Nvidia card then it might actually be a Chromium/Vivaldi bug rather than driver issue.

It seems to happen primarily on start/resume, yes. I haven't seen it happen on YouTube yet, though... and the black screen only persists for a few seconds and not indefinitely.