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If the video is encoded using a codec your hardware doesn't handle, it would be left up to the CPU to decode. Av1 can slow everything down to a crawl over CPU. You'd think the browser would be smart about the stream selection though.
I run an extension that allows to automatically request h.264 streams from YouTube even when av1 is also available. Saves a lot of CPU, at the cost of some bandwidth.
I recall h264ify but not sure about it
If you have an adblocker it might be intentional.
That's not plausible. If someone sees, oh YouTube is making my computer hot, the last thing that's going to occur to them is, "wait let me try turning off my adblocker." When corporations try to change people's incentives, they are obvious about it, so people know what to change. In contrast, changing CPU usage on video playback for people who use adblockers and then not telling anyone is... just not a strategy that…
Is it incompetence or sabotage? Who knows. The first rule of sabotage is to be indistinguishable from incompetence.
It can use a ridiculous amount of CPU.
It seems hardware accelerated only on windows chrome.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hanlon's Razor: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
I’m sorry but big tech doesn’t get the benefit of the doubt.
I have 38 locations in my (huge) city saved in Google maps and it breaks when I ask it to find a way from point A to point B. Works fine when logged out.
Maps also put traffic signals where there are none, and while finding shortest path it stopped putting weights to traffic signals. So you could have it route you via a city's main street instead of the freeway because it's 2km shorter but it ignores the 9 traffic signals that wastes 15 mins. Apple maps works fine.
Google search on web has adopted bad UX, and clicking a map or a shopping item has a noticeable delay between. Also right click "Open in new tab" options are gone.
Are you saying all these "enshittification" changes are deliberate?
If the video is encoded using a codec your hardware doesn't handle, it would be left up to the CPU to decode. Av1 can slow everything down to a crawl over CPU. You'd think the browser would be smart about the stream selection though.
If the video is encoded using a codec your hardware doesn't handle, it would be left up to the CPU to decode. Av1 can slow everything down to a crawl over CPU. You'd think the browser would be smart about the stream selection though.
I run an extension that allows to automatically request h.264 streams from YouTube even when av1 is also available. Saves a lot of CPU, at the cost of some bandwidth.
[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20110302145602/http://www.vertic...
A great (free and O.S.) Android client with ad blocker is https://github.com/polymorphicshade/Tubular it also integrates SponsorBlock!