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@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.
@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?
How to set battery saver to be always On? It goes to Off when Opera restarts...
@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!
@l33t4opera
If i disable "Hardware-accelerated video decode" it changes to "WMFVideoDecoder".
@l33t4opera Interesting, it definitely is better with the extension. Animated icon raises cpu for about 25% now.
@l33t4opera I tried in v.76 and it is the same with your mentioned flags enabled or disabled. Cpu power goes to about +40% when the sound favicon on a tab is animated. Causing cpu temperature rise over acceptable values.
My "solution" is to watch videos in fullscreen or hover mouse cursor over tab.
Spec: win8.1, fanless cpu i5 4570T, internal gpu.
@l33t4opera Thanks for your help! I followed each step you wrote and tried each time how cpu power changed with youtube favicon animated.
Sadly, no change. cpu goes to about +40% when favicon is animated.
@gamedevchrs No, problem persist for me in v.75.
It still goes to about +40% higher cpu power consumption with favicon animation compared to mouse cursor hover on tab.
Spec: win8.1, fanless cpu i5 4570T, internal gpu.
Problem persist in v.73, maybe it is not as critical as it was, but still too much for fanless CPUs!
This time i measure about +40% higher cpu power consumption with favicon animation.
Spec: win8.1, fanless i5 (4570T) cpu, internal gpu.
Maybe problem is related to win8.1 ? I can't reproduce on win10.
For me, problem persist in v.72, Win8.1, fanless i5 CPU, power consumption jumps from 9W to 14W if favicon is animated on youtube vs cursor hover over tab:
(Using Open Hardware Monitor to show temp. and power consumption)
Problem persist in v.71.
I have fanless i5 4570T CPU and whole case gets crazy hot. Power consumption jumps from 10 watts to about 18 watts, if favicon is not hovered by cursor...
This issue with very high CPU use when animated sound icon on tab is back!
Tested on: i5, Win8.1 64-bit, Opera v.67 and v.68.
After more testing i found very interesting thing: high CPU drastically drops (to normal level) when i mute Youtube video or mute opera tab with Youtube video playing!
Wow, any idea what is causing this??
