>clear browsing history/cookies/etc>youtube videos perform worse because CPU usage spiking
>>107786252Those are completely unrelated things.
It's busy re-establishing the 9 gorillion cookies again
>>107786272It shouldn't, I deleted across all browsers and what I could from both my MS and Google accounts. My idea was that maybe a YouTube cookie saved was telling it to serve me videos in one type instead of another, but that's a pretty weak theory.
>>107786252What kind of hardware are you using that you notice your video performace?
>>107787725Pentium g6950, 1x8gb ddr3, Radeon hd6950Why? It's just a website.
>>107787756Hey you're not me.>>107787725Athlon X4 750K 4x4GB DDR3, GTX 1070I sorted things out by forcing it to feed me videos in h.264 instead of AV1. Seems to have fixed things.
>>107787756>>107787842I guess either one would make sense. Esp. w/ the decoder.
>>107787842I'l have to try that on my vivobook. I have to run stress -c 4 or some shit until the fan starts sinning fast enough to keep the processor under 87C. Gives me 3 degrees to play with. At least it has 20gb of ram.
>>107787756>>107787842>>107788442web browsers are bloated and slowuse a video player instead
YouTube killed most H264 videos. They're now HVEC or AV1. If your GPU can't decode AV1 and HVEC is not available on the CDN then it falls back to your CPU which is going to be noticeably slower if you have a older machine.
>>107788576>YouTube killed most H264 videos.still works with my youtube client
>>107788557Way ahead of you.
>>107788593It works but its worse quality and slower to download because your isp is node hopping farther to third world
>>107788610So, even though it's slower, I can feel confident that it's the more technologically advanced and complicated solution, even if only beneficial for older hardware without AV1. Plus, if we all do this, we'll throttle the third world of their streaming content.
>>107788557>>107788593I love Zundamon videos
