Youtube uses a lot of cpu, I use Vivaldi

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So, I use vivialdii on my ol’ gamin laptop, the thing had 7300hq and mx150

the mx150 had the proprietary driver installed, it doesn’t really overheat … but it warms up in the late 50’s, 49 to 55 that is

the only isssue I have is that youtube videos use around 55-60 % cpu and 60 fps videos use 98-99 % cpu and the nvidia gpu gets used like a lot

last time I tested it with 60 fps vids on yt I had 60 C on the mx150 and 75 C on the cpu

is there a way to maybe switch codecs or do smth to reduce the usage and temps

note : I always play vids that are up to 1080 P :frowning:

it is very sad, cuz this is the reason why I letft linux mint too, those temps were eating my old cpu…

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Have you enabled hardware acceleration in vivaldi?

You probably want to run the browser on the Intel. Some hybrid laptops often only had h264 decode hardware on the integrated GPU.

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Yes, it it enabled, I checked in vivaldi settings… idk how to switch settings between nvidia and intel , there’s no UI for it , im preety sure it’s runing off the intel cpu though

I could let it run like this… but I still cannot watch some youtube videos without having fans screaming

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Did you install vivaldi-ffmpeg-codecs?

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Hmm…hardware acceleration is no longer working for me on Vivaldi or any other chromium browser.

It did in the past.

There is another topic discussing this.

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but for some odd reason it worked better than on firefox, ngl

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On firefox, it works perfectly for me.

You do need to do some config top make it work though.

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Unless it is installed automatically … I did not , what would these do ?

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how to do configs ?

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I thought these were no longer needed since Vivaldi automatically downloads the codecs when they are missing these days.

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https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox#Hardware_video_acceleration

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I mean… it did give me some weird notification … vivaldi that is about some codec , dont remember it’s name ngl
usually before starting up after updates , seen it twice

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Looks like vivaldi codecs are optional deps in the PKGBUILD.

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so ? I sould not install those ?

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Not sure as @dalto said vivaldi downloads them… but you can install the codecs to try them.

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i will search for them before… I don’t want trouble with the linux … don’t have time to to reinstall it… ill do a :
sudo pacman -Ss …

only tommorow, i am not at office yet

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could it be the lack of configs that made this behavior ?

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Chromium Arch Wiki points out

To reduce CPU usage while watching YouTube where VP8/VP9 hardware decoding is not available use the h264ify, enhanced-h264ify or Not yet, AV1[5] extension.

no idea if it could be related to your problem though, what’s the output of

$ vainfo

?

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i ll report tommorow, im not at the office where I have the linux laptop… im on the win11 one tonight xD

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This was the way I guess,cuz the cpu usage is around 35% at base with Vivaldi @ 720P

Also GPU acceleration seems to work all right, even though cpu usage is higher a bit than on windows , even without h264 ify and other extensions seems to work

Only add blockers don’t want anymore, I guess I’ll have to research it later

Idk what’s matter with Vivaldi’s add blockerr