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Edge Chromium dropping frames on YouTube videos
Hello (system specs are on the end of the post). I've both Edge Chromium dev (Version 83.0.478.10 (Official build) dev (64-bit)) and Edge Chromium (Version 81.0.416.58 (Official build) (64-bit)) i...
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.
And it appears to be only videos with 60fps, yet videos with 60fps work on Firefox and Brave for me.
I did a little test with opened task manager. I am able to play 4k@60 on 4k@60 monitor without any visible youtube UI. If I change the tab to do something else and leave the video playing, the browser is a little laggy. So, everything looks like in my case the browser is not the problem (same drops on the most of the browsers), but UI animations. Leaving 4k@60 playing fullscreen gives around 10-20 % usage of CPU. But when I start to move my cursor on the video window and back repetitively, the UI is showing and CPU goes crazy 100% usage and the video drops frames.
So, I maintain my opinion that Windows 10 is responsible for a such inconvenience.
Don't know why you are replying to me. But I concur that it might be Windows 10 doing this, because it affects both Edge and Chrom, but does not affect FireFox and Brave.
As to why it only happens with 60 frames per second video though is a mystery, the video can be recorded at 720p or 1080p, as long as it is 60fps video it has issues.
And the thing is this is something that has only started happening to me for like 3-5 months now, matching people code in tutorials code in 360p is not fun on a 4K monitor.
