Background videos turning green on mac? - html

I have some divs with background videos on my website, but for some reason on Mac (firefox and safari) they're all appearing with a weird green tint. I'm including them as ordinary videos and not altering the colors in any way, and they work fine on all browsers on windows. Here's the HTML:
`<div class="container-fluid splash">
<video autoplay loop class="video-background" muted plays-inline>
<source src="splashpage.m4v" type="video/mp4">
</video>
</div>`
And the CSS:
.splash {
position: fixed;
top: 0;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
overflow: hidden;
}
And here's what it looks like on the site:
background video

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<h1>Video w/ VTT</h1>
<div class="video-wrap">
<video controls muted crossorigin="anonymous">
<source
src="https://cuttle-learning.netlify.app/onboarding-sketch/videos/onboarding2.mp4?cachebreak=001"
type="video/mp4"
/>
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kind="captions"
srclang="en"
src="https://cuttle-learning.netlify.app/onboarding-sketch/videos/onboarding2.vtt?cachebreak=001"
default=""
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</video>
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Demo also here: https://h05uh.csb.app/
Sounds like it's this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1733232
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*{
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margin: 0;
padding: 0;
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Took inspiration from this gist
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<div class="wrapper">
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<source src="./video.mp4" type="video/mp4">
<source src="./video.webm" type="video/webm">
<source src="./video.ogv" type="video/ogg">
</video>
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</div>
CSS
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display: block;
position: relative;
font-size: 0;
}
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position: absolute;
z-index: 1;
box-sizing: initial;
left: -2px;
top: -2px;
right: -2px;
bottom: -2px;
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}
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width: 100%;
}