Is your GPU supposed to do something when you are watching Youtube?

[Max_Settings]

I am trying to watch an 8K 60fps video on Youtube and it won't play back because my CPU is at 100% usage and it is stuttering. So I thought that your GPU was supposed to help with video de-coding while watching Youtube, so I searched and that's what people online said that your GPU should be working while watching high quality video and that if you had a high end card you should be able to watch 8K video. Watching this 8K 60fps video my GPU is only at 1% usage so it is doing nothing. Should it be working while watching this video, and if yes how do I fix it?

[Enderman]

Is your hardware acceleration on?

[TAHIRMIA]

3 minutes ago, Tibbles said:

why are you even trying to watch something in 8k?

Why wouldn't you?

[RuLeZ]

Your GPU only helps in codecs and resolutions that is made for and is supported by the browser, and dont believe any GPU or browser supports hardware acceleration in 8K.

[Coaxialgamer]

Depends on whether or not hardware acceleration is enabled in your browser .

Also , your gpu will do some work , but it cannot do everything .

[TAHIRMIA]

Just now, Tibbles said:

awfully unnecessary for little to no benefit, even 4k

People who watch 8k content don't really care about benefits. It's mostly just to boast.

 

P.S:that was a joke

[Max_Settings]

16 minutes ago, Enderman said:

Is your hardware acceleration on?

Yes

[Mira Yurizaki]

If you're using Flash to view YouTube videos, it may not actually have hardware acceleration enabled. To verify:

• Right click on the video screen
• Click on "Settings..."
• On the first tab (looks like a monitor with a play icon), verify that "Hardware acceleration enabled" is checked.

Otherwise, I do recall that by default, YouTube sends the VP9 encoded video. Depending on which browser you use to view it, it's not actually hardware accelerated, even though your hardware can do it (https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/youtube/L7OwIT3KUaI)

 

There are ways to force YouTube to send the H.264 encoded video instead. If you use Firefox or Chrome, look for the "h264ify" extension.

[RuLeZ]

2 hours ago, M.Yurizaki said:

If you're using Flash to view YouTube videos, it may not actually have hardware acceleration enabled. To verify:

• Right click on the video screen
• Click on "Settings..."
• On the first tab (looks like a monitor with a play icon), verify that "Hardware acceleration enabled" is checked.

Otherwise, I do recall that by default, YouTube sends the VP9 encoded video. Depending on which browser you use to view it, it's not actually hardware accelerated, even though your hardware can do it (https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/youtube/L7OwIT3KUaI)

 

There are ways to force YouTube to send the H.264 encoded video instead. If you use Firefox or Chrome, look for the "h264ify" extension.

I believe that youtube just supports up to 1080p with H.264, but I may be wrong.

[DoctorZeus]

4 hours ago, Tibbles said:

why are you even trying to watch something in 8k?

way to not answer the question and be a sick contrarian

[TAHIRMIA]

1 minute ago, DoctorZeus said:

way to not answer the question and be a sick contrarian

Haha savage