Hey guys,
Something interesting just struck me.. I have a Dell XPS 13 from a few years back with an i5-5200 in it, and I've noticed over the years that it really chugs when trying to stream/play video in certain cases, particularly 4k youtube.
This is a big shame, cuz it has a really nice, if non-standard, high resolution display. However, I just took the leap today and went to Floatplane, and in watching a few videos at 1080p I didn't have any of those problems. I've heard that the way floatplane handles video means that even at 1080p the quality is better than 4k youtube, and I agree it looks really nice, but why does youtube smash the cpu so hard while floatplane does not?
I ask this entirely out of curiosity.. I know next to nothing about how video processing and different codecs and all that works. To me, it's like "same # of pixels same framerate = same", but I know that's not right.