Stuttering YouTube with Chrome (When switching tabs)

[VibesJunk]

 

When switching over from one tab to a tab where a YouTube video is, It stutters and freezes for 1 second and then the video resumes. The audio however is still playing, just the video has stuttered. Not sure what happened. I did more research and realized this is only with chrome. I did my tests with firefox and did not see this problem so I do not think it is technically a gpu driver problem. I have done a reinstall of the drivers as well. I also looked into my plugins for chrome and found only this for adobe flash: https://gyazo.com/033905dd5b4ef17fbfb06c8af9cca6e0 . I am certain something might be missing for chrome so I am asking for some help here

[PlayStation 2]

Chrome handles YouTube in a very bitchy manner. It's funny because Chrome is from Google, and so is YouTube.

[VibesJunk]

2 minutes ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

Chrome handles YouTube in a very bitchy manner. It's funny because Chrome is from Google, and so is YouTube.

It was not like this the day before. So I am curious to what I could be missing

[Matias_Chambers]

PC specs? I get the same think sometimes, but only with a specific video codec on YouTube. If the video is compressed to Vp9 it's fine but if it is AVC it sometimes lags and makes other tabs lag. 

 

[PlayStation 2]

Just now, VibesJunk said:

It was not like this the day before. So I am curious to what I could be missing

Chrome has a lot of weird issues, especially with hardware encoding and shit.

[VibesJunk]

1 minute ago, Matias_Chambers said:

PC specs? I get the same think sometimes, but only with a specific video codec on YouTube. If the video is compressed to Vp9 it's fine but if it is AVC it sometimes lags and makes other tabs lag. 

 

gtx 1070, i5, 16gb ram. 

[VibesJunk]

1 minute ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

Chrome has a lot of weird issues, especially with hardware encoding and shit.

THe problem seemed to take place after I was cleaning out my ssd but I am not sure what happened

[Matias_Chambers]

2 minutes ago, VibesJunk said:

gtx 1070, i5, 16gb ram. 

That's definitely not the issue then. I think it's just Chrome. Try disabling hardware acceleration in the settings?

[Matias_Chambers]

Oh and by the way YouTube uses HTML 5 and not Flash Player anymore. 

[VibesJunk]

5 minutes ago, Matias_Chambers said:

Oh and by the way YouTube uses HTML 5 and not Flash Player anymore. 

where can I disable hardware accel?

[Matias_Chambers]

Just now, VibesJunk said:

where can I disable hardware accel?

Click on the 3 dots in the upper right hand corner > Settings > Show advanced settings... > And then scroll all the way down and uncheck "Use hardware acceleration when available" > Restart Chrome

[EPPHO]

Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

[Matias_Chambers]

Just now, frozeNNN said:

Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

This does actually work quite often, but I always laugh inside of myself whenever I see this

[VibesJunk]

6 minutes ago, frozeNNN said:

Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

Turned off computer, turned on. Uninstalled chrome, reinstalled.

[EPPHO]

1 minute ago, VibesJunk said:

Turned off computer, turned on. Uninstalled chrome, reinstalled.

High RAM usage?

[VibesJunk]

2 minutes ago, frozeNNN said:

High RAM usage?

No, not much is running atm

[VibesJunk]

9 minutes ago, Matias_Chambers said:

This does actually work quite often, but I always laugh inside of myself whenever I see this

I just turned off acceleration and restarted but problem is still persisting

[Matias_Chambers]

1 minute ago, VibesJunk said:

I just turned off acceleration and restarted but problem is still persisting

In the address bar in Chrome type in Chrome://flags > Ctrl + F and then search "Hardware-accelerated video decode" and then disable that option. Restart after.

[VibesJunk]

19 minutes ago, Matias_Chambers said:

This does actually work quite often, but I always laugh inside of myself whenever I see this

perfect, that fixed the problem it seems! Btw what does that function I just turned off do?

[Matias_Chambers]

2 minutes ago, VibesJunk said:

perfect, that fixed the problem it seems! Btw what does that function I just turned off do?

It disables hardware accelerated video decoding. If you want to know more search on Google for it.

[VibesJunk]

5 minutes ago, Matias_Chambers said:

It disables hardware accelerated video decoding. If you want to know more search on Google for it.

It seems that keeping it enabled could cause problems with video playback especially on YouTube, but I wonder what can happen if I keep it off