Title: Video initial render problem
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Video initial render problem

 *  Resolved [Ryan_Prejean](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryan_prejean/)
 * (@ryan_prejean)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/video-initial-render-problem/)
 * I’m trying to host an mp4 video locally on my site. Everything works fine except
   that when the video begins, there’s a dark shadow covering the video. This shadow
   goes away as soon as the frame changes. If you rewind the video, then it plays
   fine all the way through. The darkness of the video only shows up if you reload
   the page and hit play for the first time. By the way, the shadow is present even
   when viewing it in the media library, so it shouldn’t be my theme or code when
   adding it. Has anyone seen this problem before?

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 *  [Nouvelle Vape](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nouvelle-vape/)
 * (@nouvelle-vape)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/video-initial-render-problem/#post-5224727)
 * I have the same problem, but did not find solution.
    Hope someone can help us…
   Thanks
 *  Thread Starter [Ryan_Prejean](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryan_prejean/)
 * (@ryan_prejean)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/video-initial-render-problem/#post-5224856)
 * You can see an example of this problem at [http://test.lindsaysherrin.com/test/](http://test.lindsaysherrin.com/test/)
 * As far as I can tell, there is nothing wrong with the video. It plays using other
   players when uploaded to their site, and Windows Media Player, VLC, and Quicktime
   all play it without an issue. I’ve also tried it on both IIS and Linux servers.
   This issue is driving me nuts because their doesn’t seem to be any apparent cause
   or reason.
 *  Thread Starter [Ryan_Prejean](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryan_prejean/)
 * (@ryan_prejean)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/video-initial-render-problem/#post-5224897)
 * Okay, after extensive research, I’ve discovered that this is an issue with how
   browsers render videos with html5. I was able to fix this problem by rendering
   videos using constant framerate instead of variable framerate. There’s a checkbox
   in Handbrake on the video tab. If that doesn’t fix the issue, then changing the
   H.264 Profile to baseline and the level to 3.0 should solve it.

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## Tags

 * [black screen](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/black-screen/)
 * [mp4](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/mp4/)
 * [render](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/render/)
 * [video](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/video/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Ryan_Prejean](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryan_prejean/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/video-initial-render-problem/#post-5224897)
 * Status: resolved

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