High cpu usage watching youtube
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aquilawhite last edited by
hi
i just reported here:
https://help.opera.com/en/computer-bug-wizard/bye
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akinaro last edited by
Small update.
Disabling those flags helped with high cpu usage, it still around 30-50 when watching live stream at 720/1080 but at least it stop buffering and lag.#enable-webrtc-capture-multi-channel-audio-processing
#audio-worklet-realtime-thread
#enable-audio-focus-enforcement
also set #use-angle to D3D9 -
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zalex108 last edited by zalex108Hi,
The future would be worse - Tab Media Gif on PIP.
"You cannot know the meaning of your life until you are connected to the power that created you". 路 Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
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andrew84 last edited by
Animated media gif is ok if this is really just a gif (like the one in Vivaldi https://forums.opera.com/post/220429).
If Opera doesn't want to refuse from the animated indication in favor of the static one (like in Chrome/Edge), why not to create a simple gif that will look similarly to the current equalizer.
As far as I know the problem of the current indication is this is not a gif, it performs like a equalizer (indications depends on what happens with sound at the moment).
I like the current equalizer, but smoothness and better performance while playing videos I like much more. -
A Former User last edited by
I am having this problem too on MacOS 10.15.7 for the past month. Only youtube is using a large portion of CPU and making my laptops fans spin up like crazy. Never used much CPU before
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marjang last edited by
Problem persist in v.71.
I have fanless i5 4570T CPU and whole case gets crazy hot. Power consumption jumps from 10 watts to about 18 watts, if favicon is not hovered by cursor...
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zalex108 last edited by
Hi,
Each one with the problem should open a BugReport to find out Systems affected and take some attention from Devs or Company's Manager.
"You cannot know the meaning of your life until you are connected to the power that created you". 路 Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
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andrew84 last edited by andrew84
There are enough bug reports on forum and in the blog (with screenshots) so most probably they are aware of the bug but ignoring it during a ~year already and don't offer any solution if they can't fix it.
I don't know what's the problem to replace the equalizer with a simple animated icon (with the same animation style if they wish)? -
A Former User last edited by
My fix was very simple and straight forward: Unistalled Opera and installed Firefox.
I was a very avid Opera user, Opera was my main browser, and pretty much I convinced everyone on my family to shift to it, but since this bug I decided to remove since it's pretty much very unstable, one release it gets fixed, the next one it comes back.
I need something reliable since I'm a web developer, Opera let me down with this, this isn't something related to Chromium or Blink/V8 since other Chromium based browsers doesn't suffer of this issue, at least for me.
It was good while it lasted, I'm subscribed to all these threads, might come back once they decided to take this issue seriously and fix it for good.
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zalex108 last edited by
Official BugReport is not Forum's report.
Someone from Opera receives those messages.Should be already fixed or worked-around.
Animated icon is unnecessary, a toggle to a Static one for those with the problem is more than enough until find a global fix."You cannot know the meaning of your life until you are connected to the power that created you". 路 Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
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andrew84 last edited by
@zalex108 said in High cpu usage watching youtube:
Animated icon is unnecessary, a toggle to a Static one for those with the problem is more than enough until find a global fix
Sure.
But I just suggested a compromise in case if they (Opera) want to keep the equalizer view (jumping bars) to be different from other browsers. I'm pretty sure that very few users will notice the difference or will be against the simple animation,
*Vivaldi also has an animated tab's indicator (sound waves) but this is just a simple loop animation and doesn't consume CPU. -
zalex108 last edited by
Yes,
Options to fix it, exists.
I don't know the reasons for this situation."You cannot know the meaning of your life until you are connected to the power that created you". 路 Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
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andrew84 last edited by
By the way, I don't use Opera GX, but there was a report also regarding the new feature 'Dynamic audio visualizer' which also consumes CPU https://forums.opera.com/post/224782
The feature can be turned off there, but the implementation of such feature tells me that they don't care much for fixing the bug (looks a bit funny because GX offers some RAM and CPU limitations and at the same time GX itself contains feature which consumes a lot of CPU. If I limit CPU usage, the feature will lag, I guess) -
A Former User last edited by
The Opera 72 update and cleaning out my laptop (both physically & through software) seem to have fixed this issue for me. i have a feeling hardware decoding for video wasn't being used correctly, even though I have a kaby lake CPU
On MacOS 10.15.7
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zalex108 last edited by zalex108
@nintendork07
Good!
I did twice here on Win x64 months ago, still the same on them.
I'll see for V72.
"You cannot know the meaning of your life until you are connected to the power that created you". 路 Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
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marjang last edited by
For me, problem persist in v.72, Win8.1, fanless i5 CPU, power consumption jumps from 9W to 14W if favicon is animated on youtube vs cursor hover over tab:
(Using Open Hardware Monitor to show temp. and power consumption)
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