HTML5 YouTube Playback

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I'm just wondering if anyone else has the same problem. When I play any YouTube videos using their HTML5 player they lag in any resolution higher than 360p.

Does anyone have a fix for this?

I'm using Chrome and, not that it matters at all, I've got Pepper Flash disabled.

I didn't go onto the Google forums for help because all they say is, "Make sure that you have requested the default player at youtube.com/html5." This doesn't help because it is set to only use flash, but some newer videos only use the HTML5 player.

2

What do you mean lagg? is the frame rate stuttering? audio clipping? buffering?

3

The frame rate drops down to around 5-10fps and the audio plays as normal. It still loads but it's almost like my processor can't handle the video. I don't get this problem with flash player.

4

I found a workaround. Went into chrome://plugins and disabled Widevine Content Decryption Module to force it to use Flash.

5

I've had similar issues

<right click the video> "stats for nerds"   what fps do you see?   I normally see 24 But what i am actually seeing feels much closer to 15 sometimes.

6

If you're using Chrome, try and use the fix that I posted here. It's been working without problems for 10 minutes and It's not causing issues on other sites.