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Edge Chromium dropping frames on YouTube videos
That is not a solution, there is more going on here than just dropped frames.
1080p and 4K if it is not 60fps, and only 30fps, there are NO dropped frames. The moment you start playing any video with 60fps, and you have a few tabs open, you will get dropped frames, and you will eventually begin to drop down to 480p.
I can not believe that after all this time, Microsoft have done nothing to address this!
I'm so extremely pissed off about this, I'm an IT Consultant with 23 years experience and most of that is in Microsoft. I've tried everything I can think off and everything I could find online but can't make this work in Edge Chromium.
I even got to the point of looking to spend over 2K to buy new hardware to make this work. I got it working by setting my resolution to 1440 and then I can do anything else (Different Refresh Rates, HDR on, etc) and get 0 drops, anything bigger than 1440 and it drops as quick as when you walk in on a priest molesting a kid and he lets go.
I now installed Chrome (and I'm not a fan due to them trying anything on this planet to harvest all your information, no respect for people and their privacy). My resolution is now at 4k and 144hz and in Chrome I've had about 4 packet drops in 3 hrs. In edge I sued to get 30-40% sometime more, absolutely awful!
Microsoft, I've now proofed like most of the stuff I support for you, that there is something weird in your Edge browser when it comes to 4K video playback. I've noticed Chrome uses AV1 when in YouTube and Edge AV9, possibly the issue?
This has been going on for e very long time and this is absolutely disgusting that its not been fixed yet, Edge is also Chromium based so pull your fingers out and fix the **bleep** issue, your customers deserver better,
I setup and do this often, MS365 and Azure Environments, Intune management, Hybrid, you name it. I work my arse of so you guys can make money and get paid, I do my best so you guys are happy, I do expect the same respect, you an at least give me a working product that I paid for.
I'm not be unreasonable, this is been going on for at least 6months, that's not good man, you should be ashamed!
I've no proofed its Edge so get this resolved!
So for me currently it all works brilliant in Chrome & Windows 11:
1. Hardware Acceleration Enabled
2. Codecs (HEVC, AV1 & AV9)
3. I also installed Windows Media Player (Windows 11)
Good luck to anyone else out there, you will never get the time back wasted on this, sorry!
- Its longer than 6 months, I have had this issue with Chromium for 3 years now.
What's even weirder though, most of us have more than one tab open. And that's the problem, that I have noticed in my situation. You can only have the main tab and nothing else open, or you will not get any Video that is 60fps to stay at the highest resolution and it will drop to 480p
I have no idea why Microsoft have ignored these pleas for 3 years, or even Google for that matter. Because other browsers like Brave and FireFox don't have this issue.
So if anyone wants an excuse to ditch Chromium browsers then this is it.