High cpu usage watching youtube

[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.

[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

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @andrew84 last edited by

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

[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.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@johnd78 Awesome!

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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).

[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.

[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

[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?

[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