Chrome GPU assisted video playback

[Magic Carpet]

For some reason, Chrome (26.0.1410.64) uses way more CPU cycles to decode YouTube HD video. Both IE10 and FF20 are about 10% more efficient. According to GPU-Z, Video Engine Load with Chrome is always 0 and therefore CPU has to do extra work. It's been like this for a year, actually. I've just revisited this problem again and it still hasn't been fixed by Google.

Anybody else notice it?

 

[mike5757]

I also noticed this. If you right-click on a YouTube video and click show video info you can see that only the decoding or rendering is being hardware accelerated in Chrome (can't remember which). I finally figured out how to get it to do all hardware acceleration (except 4K video).

Enter chrome://plugins into the address bar. You should see the flash plugin. If you don't see PepperFlash/pepflashplayer.dll under flash, you may need to click the +Details at the top right of the screen. Disable PepperFlash. You shouldn't even need to restart your browser for it to take effect, but you'll need to refresh any open YouTube videos.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Thanks Mike, this worked :thumbsup:

No idea why it's not working out of the box, though. Google's simplicity is starting to annoy me, all the interesting stuff is hidden and masked.