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Ask HN: Does anyone else notice YouTube causing 100% CPU usage and stattering?

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Re: Ask HN: Does anyone else notice YouTube causing 100% CPU usage and stattering?

#131
Happens after I've had YouTube open in Firefox for many hours (which is like every day on the Ubuntu box plugged into my TV). I don't think it's codec related, i should have av1 hw decoding, and videos play fine all day, until they don't

Re: Ask HN: Does anyone else notice YouTube causing 100% CPU usage and stattering?

#133

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Yep, that's what I use. It took youtube from using 100% cpu, to the point where my little xps13 was thermal throttling, to 50% cpu running 1080p at 2-3x speed.

Out of curiousity, what CPU do you have in that XPS 13?

It's pretty old, like from 2016 so it's only got an i5 7200U (2 core 4 threads) @ 2.5ghz.

Mostly fast enough for what I use it for (content consumption, web browsing, light gaming and coding). It's mainly limited by it's 8gb of ram which isn't upgradable.

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