@leocg Thanks, it would be nice if they might let us know what that thing is. It's still sitting on the bottom right of this window, and I've opened and closed Opera several times already. What do I have to do to get rid of it, whatever it is?

And any idea about the flashing/strobing issue? Oops, for a minute I thought it wasn't happening anymore, but soon as the YouTube page fully loaded, the strobing began. That's another infuriating aspect, of videos just auto-playing whenever I re-open Opera, they'll begin long before the page full loads, and so there's not even a pause button or stop button for me to kill the video! So I have to wait until it loads, but of course, it'll play right from jump... makes no sense....

@leocg I'll have to pay attention when I open them, but I don't recall having this happen when I open any of them, Safari, Firefox, Brave, etc. But as I open them, I'll make note if it happens with another browser, and let you know...

@richyoungjay As said, you can enable opera://flags/#sidebar-site-panel and add those video streaming sites to the sidebar.

@leocg well, yes....yes i can

but, i format again and install de windows 10 "non N" version, and it's fixed, i can play netflix, cnn and All the "study" page XD
Thanks!

OK so I went to Windows update and had it scan for updates and it tells me there are none.
Next step was to do a search for Windows 10 Pro N video.
I found this: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3145500/media-feature-pack-list-for-windows-n-editions
I followed the instructions there and..... Videos now play perfectly. Thank you for your assistance.

@kkasra12 See https://forums.opera.com/post/139976

@Tagloff said in High CPU [Video]:

@zalex108 Other user's and myself are encountering this problem, but it's not really the GPU either.
It's the in-browser audio playback for everyone, and some are finding it's also the animated icons on the tabs, for anything, anywhere.
It seems to be with any browser based off Chrome/Chromium, which Opera is based off.
Boot up youtube then -mute- it and you can see a dramatic cut in CPU & GPU usage.
It's been getting worse, and people have been reporting the problem for months, and it's tied into the 'tab icon is constantly loading' issue somehow.
Who thought it was a good idea to remove the stop-loading page function from a browser?

On my side:
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Mute is unnecessary, just hover the tab to change to a static audio icon.

Vivaldi works fine.