High cpu usage watching youtube

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by A Former User

The main reason I believe this is occurring is because hardware accelerated video decode is not working correctly. Turning hardware acceleration off and then on again seems to fix this for me. I can tell if it's working by how long youtube videos take to load or how high my fans spin (on a simple 1080p youtube video...)

Another step I used was looking at Opera://GPU and seeing the Hardware Video Decode status.

For me it said:

Hardware Protected Video Decode: Unavailable
Metal: Disabled (I am on Mac)

I changed the Flag: Override software rendering list and now it says my hardware protected video decode is enabled.

This is occurring on other chromium based browsers as well (Chrome & Brave)

I am on MacOS 10.15.7 with Macbook Pro 13 inch 2017

[suman169]

suman169 Banned last edited by

Actually i watch videos now sometimes i thaugt some bugs not fix when refresh no bugs i still consufused and some websites loads very slow some are opened but not seenimage Eg:

[marjang]

marjang last edited by

Maybe problem is related to win8.1 ? I can't reproduce on win10.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

CPU usage is not as high as before, but it is still way higher than Chrome's on YouTube. While watching the same video, Opera gets consistent 30% CPU usage, while Chrome only 8~10%. Disabling audio tab animation does nothing to change this.

I really like Opera, the look and feel is amazing, but I'm not using it as my main browser until it's solved for good.

[marjang]

marjang last edited by

Problem persist in v.73, maybe it is not as critical as it was, but still too much for fanless CPUs!

This time i measure about +40% higher cpu power consumption with favicon animation.

Spec: win8.1, fanless i5 (4570T) cpu, internal gpu.

[zalex108]

zalex108 last edited by

Hi,

You can try this workarounds in the meantime.

"You cannot know the meaning of your life until you are connected to the power that created you". · Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

[andrew84]

andrew84 last edited by andrew84

Is there any info that Opera is aware of this performance bug?
It looks like the main problem here is that Opera (developers or Opera management) doesn't consider it's an issue.

[zalex108]

zalex108 @andrew84 last edited by

@andrew84

Since seems mostly related to W7, with "ended support", It seems it has no attention to be fixed, even to give an option to disable it, at least from Flags.

It seems to affect also on W8.1 too and even on Mac, but...

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[Fragger911]

Fragger911 @zalex108 last edited by

@zalex108
That problem stays here for more then 2 years now, over many generations and versions of Opera, regardless which Windows version is used.

I switched hardware in the last years (Intel to AMD CPU, older to newer AMD GPU), still the same. Windows 10 Pro all the time.

Firefox does use way less CPU in general for that task and also makes no difference between with sound and muted tab.

All that combined looks weird for Opera.

[zalex108]

zalex108 @Fragger911 last edited by zalex108

@fragger911

Is unusable for those with the problem since Media is mostly everywhere, even without the ability to stop AutoPlay and not always you use or watch in FullScreen.

The Workaround about change between WorkSpaces, for daily use, it's annoying.

If it's not fixed even for W10, then...

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[gamedevchrs]

gamedevchrs last edited by

I may have found a fix.

For me, Twitch was using about 30% of my CPU per screen. I'm not going to go into detail or lay out my specs but I did find a way to fix my problem.

1. Make sure hardware acceleration is enabled or this won't work
   (If you can't find hardware acc, go here opera://settings and type in "hardware acceleration")
2. Go to opera://flags/#ignore-gpu-blocklist
   Enable that setting, relaunch and you should be good.

I think someone above already answered this but I was unable to find this setting using their instructions.

I really hope this helps cause I've been having to stress over this for about 2 weeks and it feels good to be back at minimal CPU usage.

[marjang]

marjang @gamedevchrs last edited by

@gamedevchrs No, problem persist for me in v.75.

It still goes to about +40% higher cpu power consumption with favicon animation compared to mouse cursor hover on tab.

Spec: win8.1, fanless cpu i5 4570T, internal gpu.

[l33t4opera]

l33t4opera @marjang last edited by sgunhouse

Hi @marjang, first of all go to "opera:flags#disable-accelerated-video-decode" and make sure it's set to "Disabled", and if not disable it, restart the browser and check if it helps.
Also, you can enable "opera:flags#enable-gpu-rasterization" (don't forget to restart the browser to make it works).

In addition to the above, check if running the Opera with the following switches (add them at the end of the shortcut which you use to run Opera): "Path\to\launcher.exe" --disable-gpu-driver-bug-workarounds --num-raster-threads=4 --use-gl=desktop
improves all over performance of the browser (including this playing videos).

Small note: in case "--use-gl=desktop" makes some artifacts (causes displaying issues in the browser UI), remove it and try to run the Opera with the other switches only.

[marjang]

marjang @l33t4opera last edited by marjang

@l33t4opera Thanks for your help! I followed each step you wrote and tried each time how cpu power changed with youtube favicon animated.

Sadly, no change. cpu goes to about +40% when favicon is animated.

[l33t4opera]

l33t4opera @marjang last edited by sgunhouse

@marjang Which "youtube favicon" do you mean? Can you show it in the screenshot?
Does playing YouTube videos consume now less CPU resources or not?
If not try the opposite, I mean go to "opera:flags#disable-accelerated-video-decode" and now set it to "Enabled" and restart the browser. Maybe there's something broken with the flag switch, and when you enable this it will work.

[A Former User]

A Former User @l33t4opera last edited by

@l33t4opera This is an old problem of the Opera and it is not solved by the flags of chromium. The problem is in the animation of the favicon.

[andrew84]

andrew84 @l33t4opera last edited by

@l33t4opera said in High cpu usage watching youtube:

screenshot

The discussion is about the tab's equalizer

[l33t4opera]

l33t4opera @Guest last edited by l33t4opera

Hi guys, @johnd78 yes I was already aware about the issue with "lagging" audio indicator since the beginning.

@andrew84 Thanks for the screenshot. Are you sure it's only about that? , it states in general "High CPU usage watching YouTube".

Also, are you completely sure that the lagging is caused by this indicator? As I remember it the indicator was causing a much more CPU use than 40%.
For example, when I'm listening to only music (without video) on some websites, the indicator is active, but it seems not to use much more CPU resources in this case.

[l33t4opera]

l33t4opera @marjang last edited by l33t4opera

@marjang Can you re-check it in the latest Opera stable 76.0.4017.94, please?

[andrew84]

andrew84 @l33t4opera last edited by

@l33t4opera I can't say for sure, but I'd say that I don't see much difference when I compare the same video (and same resolution) in Chrome/Edge vs Opera with muted tab.