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Edge Chromium Video Acceleration Is Not As Good As EdgeHTML and Internet Explorer 11
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.
- Most of my video contents that I use are through browsers and I set my Intel IGPU to handle the browser video accelerations and I have never had any problems with videos. be it on Youtube 4K 60FPS, Twitch, direct link to a video file etc. latest Windows 10, latest Intel graphic drivers.
Core i7, DDR4 16GB RAM (at least)
