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trparky
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Apr 08, 2019

YouTube full screen playback is choppy

When YouTube video playback is in full screen mode and the video controls are on the screen the video playback is not at all reliable. The framerates go through the floor and the video playback gets ...
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Anonymous
Apr 08, 2019

confirmed, seems that Hardware Acceleration is not working properly in comparison with IE11 or Edge.

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    GurpreetV
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    Apr 08, 2019

    DeletedIn IE11/ Edge, YouTube playback would use VP9 only if hardware decoding was enabled or H264 (with hardware decoding benefits). 

     

    In new Edge based of chromium, the chromium model is followed where VP9 is used even if hardware decoding is not enabled.

     

    Nonetheless playback quality should not be worse and we are trying to get additional info to debug this problem further.

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    trparky
    Brass Contributor
    Apr 08, 2019

    Deleted I turned off hardware acceleration and the YouTube full screen video playback issue is "fixed".

     

    I put that in quotes because well, it's fixed in the sense that I can watch YouTube videos but it's not fixed because turning off hardware acceleration is more of a hack.

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Apr 08, 2019

      trparky I think is related with this edge://flags/#d3d11-video-decoder due is not enabled by default.

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        trparky
        Brass Contributor
        Apr 08, 2019

        Deleted OK, I changed that and with hardware acceleration that enabled the issue is "fixed".

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