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Edge Chromium dropping frames on YouTube videos
Hello Guys!
I've got recently new laptop (i5 10210u) and the issue is still present. I'm using 4k60Hz monitor connected via usb-c to displayport cable. I've tried Edge, Chrome, Firefox and Brave and every of them is droping frames, especially playing 60fps videos (Edge is actually doing good ~ Brave ~ Chrome >> Firefox).
I've noticed that the framerate drop stops when I go fullscreen without any visible Youtube UI (stats for nerds closed too).
Maybe Windows is messing with something?
Is there any feedback on this, is MS looking into this at all? I don't see why another browser like Brave, based on Chromium doesn't have this issue, yet Edge does?
And why it only happens to a monitor that is DPI aware either, my other monitor on the same computer doesn't drop frames or drop the viewing resolution down to 360p (normally 480p in most cases).
This is something that has happened in the last few months, and its getting a bit frustrating that you guys have introduced this, a particular version of Chromium doesn't do this and we are having to put up with the consequences of Microsoft breaking stuff and doing nothing to fix it again.
Little update. I bought the HEVC codec on Windows market and it still drops frames. So, don't bother spending 1$ 🙂
The frame dropping on YouTube started happening to me about 3 dev versions ago. It's gotten so bad, most videos are impossible to watch. It's happening on Canary and the default release. I don't get the problem with Chrome or Brave browser.
