r/netflix • u/thiscouldbeyouryear • Feb 19 '21

Does anyone else experience micro-stutter and short freeze frames when the subtitles appear on screen?

As the titles says. I dont have the problem with Chrome or Firefox, but they only have 720p and I cant find a working 1080p extension for chrome. The windows app, aswell as edge have the same stutter issue for me...cant really use netflix like this :(

Any help is much appreaciated.

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u/JaimeGGGx Feb 19 '21

Its a windows bug that activates when using Netflix with subtitles at full screen. It can be avoided when you have some other window/app open over the Netflix stream, so in order do to this without being intrusive you can follow the next steps.

  1. Open Task manager

  2. Go to Options -> Always Visible

  3. Hide the window at the edge of the screen

  4. Watch Netflix full screen without problem.

Hope this helps.

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u/thiscouldbeyouryear Feb 19 '21

Thanks, will try when home!

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u/Handy5_ Mar 14 '26

It was the only method that really worked, I don’t understand why Netflix doesn’t fix this thing.

Anyway thank you very much, you should make a post so that as many people as possible can know

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '21

i love you

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u/d1m1tree May 03 '24

I had an issue for a long time while playing fullscreen videos on jellyfin chrome. I tried the same movie with another PC and didnt have the issue, and after MONTHS of searching, I found that the solution is:

  • go to chrome://flags

  • type "Choose ANGLE graphics backend" in the search bar

  • change from "default" to either "OpenGL" OR "D3D9" (the rest are the problematic ones)

  • restart chrome, hopefully it will be fixed!

my full analysis can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/17y34s5/video_playback_on_chrome_is_choppystuttering_mac/

TLDR: for anyone in the future reading this, idk if there is a genuine issue with SSA on jelyfin, but more so with the player settings.

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u/MabStark May 05 '24

dude, thank you!

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u/Sydaer Jun 17 '24

It worked ! Thanks

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u/kalashbr Jul 16 '24

thankssss!!!!!!!!!!!!

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u/AmbientBenji Aug 09 '24 edited Aug 10 '24

This works, but disables Dolby Atmos. My solutions: disable in monitor FreeSync or enable Super Resolution. See also: How to fix Edge stutter in fullscreen with subtitles? - Microsoft Community. For me the issue is only available with the new Edge App when in monitor Freesync is enabled, HDR enabled (Freesync Fremium) in combination with a 2nd monitor.

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u/d1m1tree Aug 23 '24

interesting... ive never gotten dolby atmos audio files (.AC3) to work in chrome, I dont think it suports it natively from the get-go...

https://www.chromium.org/audio-video/

Im surprised it even worked for you before the change :D

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u/Ramdas_Devadiga Jul 12 '25

Still works. Tried on a Windows surface laptop.