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Copper Contributor

Apr 11, 2024

Troubles viewing 4k video from YouTube

I have a Windows 11 and there seems to be a problem when I'm watching 4K videos such as this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62y2Qr-IEUA&t=106s The problem is that the video stalls a few times...

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Alabamatom1963

Iron Contributor

Apr 12, 2024

https://www.wikihow.com/Turn-Off-Hardware-Acceleration#:~:text=How%20to%20Turn%20Off%20Hardware%20Acceleration%201%20Open,and%20Personalization%22.%206%20...%20%28more%20items%29%20See%20More.

JDMils

Copper Contributor

Apr 17, 2024

Thanks, tried turning the acceleration options off and restarted the PC but still having the same issue. When I watch the red bar at the bottom move across the YouTube video, it shows how much it has pre-cached/downloaded and when the red bar catches up to the grey bar, the system has no more pre-cached video and this is where the video stops, waits for more to download, then continues.

JDMils
Copper Contributor
Apr 21, 2024
Someone mentioned the following but I'm not sure if it is true:
Your GPU doesn't have av1 hardware decode, so it's too slow for av1 4k.
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/compare/