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    • 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.

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      • andrew84
        andrew84 last edited by andrew84

        Now there's a general flag appeared in the latest (80.0.4162.0) developer build.
        #static-tab-audio-indicator
        2021-08-31_141749.png

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        • burnout426
          burnout426 Volunteer @andrew84 last edited by

          @andrew84 Thanks for the heads up. This is awesome! Hopefully users here can confirm that this helps.

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          • A Former User
            A Former User @burnout426 last edited by

            @burnout426 said in High cpu usage watching youtube:

            Hopefully users here can confirm that this helps.

            The new flag really helps, I checked.

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            • burnout426
              burnout426 Volunteer @Guest last edited by

              @johnd78 Awesome!

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              • andrew84
                andrew84 last edited by andrew84

                Strange thing here is that after updating to 79 version, the performance when watching youtube is worse with 'h264ify' extension enabled.
                In previous versions it was the opposite situation.
                *The best performance for me is now in Dev version with 'h264ify' extension disabled and with 'static indicator' flag enabled.

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                • andrew84
                  andrew84 last edited by

                  Since 79 version avc1 videos on youtube overload CPU here(even without the animated tab indicator).
                  I checked it in Chrome and in Edge Canary without any issues.

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                  • L1L-ST4BB13S
                    L1L-ST4BB13S last edited by

                    I have this problem in the latest version does anyone else have this issue where youtube is just devouring cpu despite being on the latest version? Also I've looked around and haven't found a solid this has fixed it fix.

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                    • cabusopera
                      cabusopera last edited by

                      Try to install VP9 Extension, which allows the GPU to take the most workload, releasing CPU (especially in 4K contents).

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                      • L1L-ST4BB13S
                        L1L-ST4BB13S @cabusopera last edited by

                        @cabusopera how does this help with youtube? I don't understand since this is an app not something I can run or attach to opera as an extension and call it a day. This is a video player that isn't youtube and doesn't have youtube... I guess I just don't see what this suggestion was suggesting when the issue is about youtube.

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                        • cabusopera
                          cabusopera @L1L-ST4BB13S last edited by cabusopera

                          @l1l-st4bb13s Description:

                          Play VP9 videos in any video app on your Windows 10 device. VP9 is a popular video codec for streaming over the internet. These VP9 Video Extensions are designed to take advantage of hardware capabilities on newer devices. For devices that don’t have hardware support for VP9 videos, software support is provided, but the playback experience might vary based on the video resolution and device performance. These extensions also let you encode VP8 and VP9 content on devices that don’t have a hardware-based video encoder.

                          Applies to web browser content also

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                          • L1L-ST4BB13S
                            L1L-ST4BB13S @cabusopera last edited by

                            @cabusopera I have tried over and over to run the application and nothing happens am I doing something wrong? Could you help me open this?

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                            • burnout426
                              burnout426 Volunteer @L1L-ST4BB13S last edited by

                              @l1l-st4bb13s https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/wiki/opera/known_issues#wiki_opera_on_windows_is_slow

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                              • L1L-ST4BB13S
                                L1L-ST4BB13S @burnout426 last edited by

                                @burnout426 tried everything on the list and nothing worked

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                                • L1L-ST4BB13S
                                  L1L-ST4BB13S @L1L-ST4BB13S last edited by leocg

                                  the opera://gpu says this if it helps

                                  Graphics Feature Status
                                  Canvas: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
                                  Canvas out-of-process rasterization: Disabled
                                  Direct Rendering Display Compositor: Disabled
                                  Compositing: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
                                  Multiple Raster Threads: Enabled
                                  OpenGL: Disabled
                                  Rasterization: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
                                  Raw Draw: Disabled
                                  Skia Renderer: Enabled
                                  Video Decode: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
                                  Video Encode: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
                                  Vulkan: Disabled
                                  WebGL: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
                                  WebGL2: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
                                  WebGPU: Disabled
                                  Problems Detected
                                  WebGPU has been disabled via blocklist or the command line.
                                  Disabled Features: webgpu
                                  Gpu compositing has been disabled, either via blocklist, about:flags or the command line. The browser will fall back to software compositing and hardware acceleration will be unavailable.
                                  Disabled Features: gpu_compositing
                                  
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                                  • burnout426
                                    burnout426 Volunteer @L1L-ST4BB13S last edited by

                                    @l1l-st4bb13s Goto opera://flags and choose "reset all", Goto the URL opera://settings/system, and make sure "hardware acceleration" is on. Then, restart Opera and goto opera://gpu. Any difference?

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                                    • cabusopera
                                      cabusopera @L1L-ST4BB13S last edited by cabusopera

                                      @l1l-st4bb13s What CPU and Operating System do you use?

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                                      • L1L-ST4BB13S
                                        L1L-ST4BB13S @burnout426 last edited by

                                        @burnout426 no change trust me i've done every enable every disable nothing worked tot he point i swapped to firefox just to save myself from the stress and paranoia of not thinking i was gonna be able to fix this and in the end i never did

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                                        • L1L-ST4BB13S
                                          L1L-ST4BB13S @cabusopera last edited by

                                          @cabusopera windows and AMD Ryzen 7 3750H with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx 2.30 GHz

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                                          • leocg
                                            leocg Moderator Volunteer @L1L-ST4BB13S last edited by

                                            @l1l-st4bb13s If even after flags reset and enabling hardware acceleration in settings, opera://gpu says that only software acceleration is used, then it's probably the cause of the problem.

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