High cpu usage watching youtube

[l33t4opera]

l33t4opera @marjang last edited by l33t4opera

@marjang Nice, so at least that helped to reduce the CPU use in your case ;-)
By the way: it should now also use less CPU resources on most of the other website where you watch videos, not only on YT.

What it's displaying now in "chrome:media-internals" on the right of "videodecodername" ?

[andrew84]

andrew84 @l33t4opera last edited by

@l33t4opera said in High cpu usage watching youtube:

videodecodername

"MojoVideoDecoder" in my case

[sstevemmitchell]

sstevemmitchell @l33t4opera last edited by

@l33t4opera said in High cpu usage watching youtube:

@marjang Ah, so that could be also the cause of some additional using of the CPU.

Can you install the h264ify extension, and check if the browser uses less CPU resources when you replaying videos?
(you can see that it forces replaying videos with H.264 codec. when it displays "avc1... /mp4a..." under "Stats for nerds")
You can install the extension under a fresh profile, if you don't want to clutter the current one as follows:
"Path\to\launcher.exe" --user-data-dir=\Path\to\writable_dir\fresh_profile" .

Thanks @l33t4opera , it work for me!

[marjang]

marjang @l33t4opera last edited by

@l33t4opera
kVideoDecoderNam = "VideoDecodeAccelerator"

[l33t4opera]

l33t4opera @andrew84 last edited by l33t4opera

@andrew84 That's good, so it looks like it's hardware accelerated ;-)

[l33t4opera]

l33t4opera @sstevemmitchell last edited by l33t4opera

@sstevemmitchell Nice to hear that, you're welcome ;-)

[l33t4opera]

l33t4opera @marjang last edited by

@marjang Are you sure? Isn't it "GpuVideoDecoder" or "MojoVideoDecoder"?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @marjang last edited by

@marjang What is the codec?

[marjang]

marjang @l33t4opera last edited by

@l33t4opera
If i disable "Hardware-accelerated video decode" it changes to "WMFVideoDecoder".

[marjang]

marjang @leocg last edited by

@leocg said in High cpu usage watching youtube:

@marjang What is the codec?

Youtube: avc1 / mp4a

[andrew84]

andrew84 last edited by andrew84

Interesting flag in the latest Dev build
#disable-media-indicator-in-power-save-mode

I think it should be not simply disabled (because no indication at all in this case) but changed to static and it should work not only in power save mode.

Maybe the option must in browser Settings in user interface section, some 'disable media indicator animation' toggle.

[marjang]

marjang @andrew84 last edited by

@andrew84 said in High cpu usage watching youtube:

#disable-media-indicator-in-power-save-mode

Thank you, thank you, thank you! My issue solved in latest dev build with this!

[alex-june]

alex-june last edited by

I am facing the same issue. But my issue is solved now.
Thanks for this.

[jaswantwe]

jaswantwe last edited by

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.

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")
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 last edited by

How to set battery saver to be always On? It goes to Off when Opera restarts...

[l33t4opera]

l33t4opera @marjang last edited by

@marjang Hi, here in the latest Opera stable (77.0.4054.146), when I enable it in settings, it remains enabled after I close and relaunch the browser.

What's your Opera version?, if not the latest one, perhaps update to it and see if this helps.

[marjang]

marjang @l33t4opera last edited by

@l33t4opera Thanks, i have same version. Battery saver goes to off when Opera restarts. I don't have laptop, it is regular PC... Is that the problem?

[andrew84]

andrew84 @marjang last edited by

@marjang Same here.
But I don't use battery saver because it also limits PC's resources (If I don't mistake). I use only .h264 extension suggested by @l33t4opera and currently the performance is acceptable.
I hope in future they'll finally introduce the option in Settings to disable the animation not only in power save mode.

[l33t4opera]

l33t4opera @marjang last edited by l33t4opera

@marjang I see, so it seems to be the issue, that you try to use battery saver on desktop, where there's no battery available.

Also, as @andrew84 wrote, the option to turn off the animation should be available regardless of whether a user is using the battery saving feature or not. I can't tell you if Opera's devs are already working on it, or if it is even planned, because I am one of the users and not an Opera employee.
I think you will get a better answer, if you ask about it on the blog.

[marjang]

marjang @andrew84 last edited by

@andrew84 said in High cpu usage watching youtube:

I don't use battery saver because it also limits PC's resources

True. Frames are skipping badly on youtube with battery saver, unfortunately. Not perfect solution, but i still use it on fanless PC, so that it does not overheat.