High cpu usage watching youtube

l33t4opera

l33t4opera @marjang

@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

@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

@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

@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

@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

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

burnout426

burnout426 Volunteer @andrew84

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

A Former User @burnout426

@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

@johnd78 Awesome!

andrew84

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

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

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

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

@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

@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

@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

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

L1L-ST4BB13S

L1L-ST4BB13S @burnout426

@burnout426 tried everything on the list and nothing worked

L1L-ST4BB13S

L1L-ST4BB13S @L1L-ST4BB13S

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

burnout426

burnout426 Volunteer @L1L-ST4BB13S

@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?