Annoying reverb when playing html5 videos

[SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman]

That's a problem I've had for a while and that I've noticed when watching YouTube videos (but it seems to happen with all html5 videos). At first, I thought it only happened on FireFox because it didn't happen on Edge but nope, testing with Chrome today and it does it as well. Googling hasn't helped so I'm really hoping someone has some idea of how to fix it.


Also, let me mention the usual suspects:

It's not caused by a plugin. I tried with plugins deactivated and Chrome doesn't have any plugins and yet it still happens. In fact, I have since installed a plugin that allows me to switch the YouTube player from the html5 version to the Flash version and the audio on the Flash version works fine. Unfortunately, it also uses up a lot more memory to the point of slowing FireFox to a crawl.

It's not my drivers. They are up to date and it only happens when using an html5 player. Besides, if I download the video and then play it on VLC player, there I no audio issue.

It's not my headphones. It happens regardless of whether they are plugged in or not and again, it only happens with html5 players. The sound of everything else is perfectly fine.

It's not a virus. I have ran several antiviruses. Everything is clean.

[SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman]

Okay so, for anyone interested, I at least managed to find a different plugin simply called "YouTube Flash Player" that seems do the same as the other one but without slowing everything down. I'd still like to figure out what's causing the problem, though.

Oh, one more thing, I think reinstalling FireFox temporarily fixed the problem when I tried that earlier but once I closed FF and opened it again, the problem was back.

[Gecko]

You've covered all the obvious stuff, so the only thing that I can think of at the moment is that is that it might just be a Firefox bug.

Do you have a link to a video that it's happening with?

[SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman]

Feb 12, 2017 18:50:57 GMT -5 Gecko said:

You've covered all the obvious stuff, so the only thing that I can think of at the moment is that is that it might just be a Firefox bug.

Do you have a link to a video that it's happening with?

Any YouTube video.

[Gecko]

Feb 13, 2017 3:32:45 GMT -5 SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman said:

Feb 12, 2017 18:50:57 GMT -5 Gecko said:

You've covered all the obvious stuff, so the only thing that I can think of at the moment is that is that it might just be a Firefox bug.

Do you have a link to a video that it's happening with?

Any YouTube video.

I'm not getting any issue, or maybe I just can't hear it with my speakers. I'm using Firefox 51.0.1.

I can't think of anything helpful to try right now, sorry.

[SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman]

No problem. Like I said, it happens on Chrome too so I don't think it's a FireFox-specific problem. But then again, it doesn't happen with anything other than web browsers (and it doesn't happen with Edge either).