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Edge Chromium Video Acceleration Is Not As Good As EdgeHTML and Internet Explorer 11
It's similar with Edge Chromium Dev v.79.0308.1 64 bit
I'm using a different video because the other one is unavailable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vigX3H7WX5Q
- I've been using these flags SpoilerEdge Chromium Dev v.79.0.308.1 64 bit FlagsEdge Chromium Dev v.79.0.308.1 64 bit Graphics Feature StatusSpoilerEdge Chromium Dev v.79.308.1 64 bit Windowed Plugged In ModeEdge Chromium Dev v.79.308.1 64 bit Fullscreen Plugged In Mode
- Video UI still causes larger frame drops SpoilerEdge Chromium Dev v.79.0.308.1 64 bit Windowed Plugged In Mode w/Video UI
- There are some improvements with Edge Chromium Canary v.80.0.317.1 64 bit although performance issues with Video UI is the same SpoilerEdge Chromium Canary v.80.0.317.1 64 bit Flags
Edge Chromium Canary v.80.317.1 64 bit Graphics Feature StatusSpoilerEdge Chromium Canary v.80.0317.1 64 bit Windowed Plugged In ModeEdge Chromium Canary v.80.0.317.1 64 bit Fullscreen Plugged In ModeEdge Chromium Canary v.80.0317.1 64 bit Windowed Plugged In Mode w/Video UI - When in Battery Mode Edge Chromium has severe performance drops even though the laptop is set to maximize performance in both plugged in mode and battery mode SpoilerEdge Chromium Dev v.79.0.308.1 64 bit Windowed Battery Power ModeEdge Chromium Dev 79.0.308.1 64 bit Fullscreen Battery Power ModeEdge Chromium Canary v.80.317.1 64 bit Windowed Battery Powered ModeEdge Chromium Canary v.80.0.317.1 64 bit Fullscreen Battery Power Mode
- Though with Chrome Dev v.79.0.3945.8 64 bit there are still hitches but far less frame drops when using the same flags and extensions, and battery mode did not have the severe performance drops like in Edge Chromium SpoilerChrome Dev v.79.3945.8 64 bit FlagsChrome Dev v.79.0.3945.8 64 bit Graphics Feature StatusSpoilerChrome Dev v.79.0.3945.8 64 bit Windowed Plugged InChrome Dev v.79.0.3945.8 64 bit Fullscreen Plugged InChrome Dev v.79.0.3945.8 64 bit Windowed Battery Power ModeChrome Dev v.79.0.3945.8 64 bit Fullscreen Battery Power ModeChrome Dev v.79.0.3945.8 64 bit Windowed Batter Power Mode w/Video UI
Edge HTML and Internet Explorer 11 didn't drop a frame even when moving the cursor and quickly scrolling the up and down in battery mode
SpoilerEdge HTML Windowed Battery Power Mode w/Video UIInternet Explorer 11 Windowed Battery Power w/Video UIHopefully whatever optimizations that are in Chrome Dev make it to Edge Chromium.
I have an Intel N5000 with UHD Graphics 605. I compared graphics usage between edge and chrome and noticed some video streams in chromium (edge or chrome variant) don't even utilize the video decode and just a little bit of other graphics resources but not enough for smooth playback. EdgeHTML uses far better use of graphics resources including the video decode specifically and it guarantees smooth playback.
I only came back to this issue because there have been more streams on twitch.tv lately that my CPU just cannot handle in chrome. I had to revert Edge back to EdgeHTML and was able to get back smooth playback for these twitch streams. I can even run streams in both browsers simulateously and the EdgeHTML stream is still smooth. Flags in chrome do not help, latest intel graphics driver installed. The video engine in chromium is just bad. This is exactly why I disliked it back when Microsoft said they were switching to chromium. I knew they were going to sacrifice the good things about EdgeHTML rather than just making EdgeHTML better.
edit: I can see that the majority of twitch streams activate the video decode on my UHD 605 graphics. It just so happens the one stream that I watch the most (LCK) doesn't activate it and I don't know why it doesn't on chromium but does in EdgeHTML.
- Hopefully someone from the dev team is working on getting the rendering /decode on par with EdgeHTML.
On “high end” systems these performance issues are hardly noticeable.
On low end systems it basically is a night and day difference.
The performance benefits would translate well across the board and make the browser more snappy.There was one instance where it appeared Chrome and Firefox were doing a video stream better. This was tested on a system with a GTX 1070 and i7 processor, so video "should" be fine in any browser on this system. It was specifically with a video steam on hbo now, and I only tested the movie Fantastic Beasts 2. The video in EdgeHTML stuttered more than in chrome or firefox.
Also strange is that I couldn't get that LCK twitch stream to activate video decode on my GTX 1070, even in the EdgeHTML browser. It does activate the video decode on my laptop with Intel UHD 605, but on my desktop with the Nvidia card, I couldn't get the LCK twitch stream to activate video decode on any browser.
I've always felt a bit of unease with video playback in browsers. I only really fully trust offline content played in video players like VLC. No one ever seems to get it quite right with browsers, as there's always something wrong. So I keep multiple browsers installed and use the one that works depending on which website I use.
