Videos Blur When Paused

[dgschaefer]

Why do uploaded videos blur themselves when paused?  Sometimes it's helpful to pause a video to take a closer look at what is being shown, but with the blurry image it's impossible.

See the videos in the following thread as an example:

https://community.ptc.com/t5/Assembly-Design/Create-a-Layer-for-hiding-thread-notes-in-3D-model/m-p/544361/

[Dale_Rosema]

By blurring, do you mean darkening a few shades?

[TomU]

[dgschaefer]

That's it exactly.  Darkened and blurry.  Can't read anything.

[Dale_Rosema]

Mine was dark, but not blurry:

BTW, I thought the cut and paste thing was fixed versus having to upload.

[dgschaefer]

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@Dale_Rosema wrote:

Mine was dark, but not blurry:

BTW, I thought the cut and paste thing was fixed versus having to upload.

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Interesting, it might help @Jaime_Lee diagnose if she knew what browsers & OS we're using.

I'm running Chrome on Windows 7.

[TomU]

Windows 10 and Edge browser.

[TomU]

I just tested Chrome on Windows 10 and the image is just as blurry.  It must be OS specific, not browser specific.

[Dale_Rosema]

Windrows 7 Professional & IE11

[TomU]

Totally agree.  Also don't like how the videos start off using a lower resolution (fuzzy) and then switch to a higher resolution part way through playing.  Makes it hard to tell what's going on.  Wish you could just pick the playback quality/speed (like YouTube.)

[TomU]

Okay, this is really interesting.  Chrome gives an option to choose the video quality but Edge (Windows 10) does not.  Here is a screenshot from Chrome:

[dgschaefer]

I just tried Firefox 59.0.1, Chrome 65.0.3325.181 and IE 11 on my Windows 7 PC. 

FF & Chrome were dimmed & blurry when paused, IE was just dimmed.

All had the video quality options.

All were low resolution / blurry for the first few seconds.