YouTube 4k

[sourcreampie]

I was wondering if anyone else has seen this problem. I first noticed it on Gamers Nexus channel, when I turn on 4K all i get is dropped frames about 90% of them but drop it down to 1440 an it perfect. I use firefox, I don't have a shit ton of add on. I was wondering if anyone has seen this problem but more interested in if someone has a  solution problem. If its a setting in firefox, just checked chrome and it is a whole bunch lag and some dropped frames. But like i said most other 4K is just fine i would say maybe 85% of 4k is just fine. Even pornhub 4K is just fine lol. Any help would be amazing please and thank you in advance.

[igormp]

What's your CPU? Likely your GPU doesn't have VP9 decode support (which is used for 4k videos on youtube), and it's abusing your CPU for software decode.

[Bitter]

Yes, monitor system usage, likely you just don't have the horsepower to play back 4K Youtube. Seems silly but that's a lot of pixels to decode, way more than 1080P!

[sourcreampie]

I dont think that is it utilization mostly under 20% bounces to 70% for as second. The sound come throw just fine 6k out of 14k frames dropped hardly ever hitting my base clock speed. but why would most 4k vids work but not his. is it a bit rate thing with his vids or is there different setting in which they upload at. not even hitting more the 2.5ghz the Buffer Health is fine on the nerd stats ever once and a while in a while i hit 50mbps but mostly 20 to 30. i have a 100mbps internet. ltt vids hits my system harder and they are playing 4k just fine. it just weird, it is only some youtuber i have the problem and it all the 4k vids they have. i had floatplane for a little while and never had any problems and they upload higher quality. a very confusing problem

 

sorry igormp didnt see your i have old school parts i5 2400 and a 760. but as i said why would i have problems with some youtuber and not others. is there different up loads setting they can use for the same resolution??

[TetraSky]

40 minutes ago, sourcreampie said:

sorry igormp didnt see your i have old school parts i5 2400 and a 760. but as i said why would i have problems with some youtuber and not others. is there different up loads setting they can use for the same resolution??

Could be the fact that GN videos are 4k 60fps for some insane reason even though that kind of content clearly doesn't benefit from 60fps. Which is not only a bit more taxing on the system, but also if your network speed isn't adequate enough.

 

How about a video where you know it works fine ? Can you check if it's plain 4k or 4k60 ?

I believe youtube will compress every video uploaded and cap them all at essentially the same bitrate anyway, so there's no point for a creator to upload a 40000 bitrate video when youtube will compress it down to 3000, for example. 

[LogicalDrm]

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[Loote]

8 hours ago, TetraSky said:

there's no point for a creator to upload a 40000 bitrate video when youtube will compress it down to 3000

There is, you get better results compressing better source, but the resulting bitrate is indeed the same.
There are apps to download from youtube, one could check the mediainfo of working and not working files and look for differences.

[Bitter]

If you're using Firefox try the h264ify plugin, it lets you ban 60fps and certain codecs. It really helps my old i5 580m laptop out when watching YouTube. No way I can do 4k or even 1440 with it, 1080p 30fps is it's max for not dropping frames.

 

My HTPC is an i7 4850HQ and a GTX 960, it can do youtube 4k60 just fine but not 8k, even my desktop with a R7 2700x and Vega56 struggle with youtube 8k.