Youtube using a lot of cpu

General system Applications
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This does not tell you which decoder is used, play a youtube video and press ctrl+shift+i , and look for “media”.

Since some time I had to disable (#)
--use-gl=desktop
on amd and intel igpu to get “vaapi true” in chromium (probably the same in brave).

…my flags:

--ignore-gpu-blocklist
--enable-gpu-rasterization
--enable-zero-copy
--disable-gpu-driver-bug-workarounds
--enable-native-gpu-memory-buffers
--enable-features=VaapiVideoDecoder,VaapiVideoEncoder,CanvasOopRasterization,VaapiIgnoreDriverChecks,RawDraw
#--use-gl=desktop
--disable-features=UseChromeOSDirectVideoDecoder
--use-vulkan

Graphics Feature Status
Canvas: Hardware accelerated
Canvas out-of-process rasterization: Enabled
Direct Rendering Display Compositor: Disabled
Compositing: Hardware accelerated
Multiple Raster Threads: Enabled
OpenGL: Enabled
Rasterization: Hardware accelerated on all pages
Raw Draw: Enabled
Video Decode: Hardware accelerated
Video Encode: Hardware accelerated
Vulkan: Enabled
WebGL: Hardware accelerated
WebGL2: Hardware accelerated
WebGPU: Disabled

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Edit:
Also a very convenient method is play-with-mpv .

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I will surely check this out…thank you

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What about Firefox? Same problem?

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i dont use firefox

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This is the status

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Can you tell how did you enavle these flags…what is the optimum cpu usage while playing videos at 720p…like mine is about 50 percent

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…to help you, you have to help us

show output of

inxi -Fazy

your flags

chrome://flags/

your Brave launch command

brave --HereAreMyFlags
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spec

ystem:
Kernel: 6.2.2-arch1-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.1
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-linux
root=UUID=56172e9c-61a1-4a1b-b02c-980ec2625676 rw quiet splash loglevel=3
udev.log_level=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0
Desktop: i3 v: 4.22 info: polybar vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Archcraft
base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Aspire A315-22 v: V1.09
serial: Chassis: type: 10 serial:
Mobo: SR model: Rose_SR v: V1.09 serial: UEFI: Phoenix
v: 1.09 date: 05/15/2020
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 14.4 Wh (62.1%) condition: 23.2/25.1 Wh (92.4%)
volts: 11.1 min: 11.4 model: LGC AC14B18J type: Li-ion serial:
status: discharging cycles: 2
CPU:
Info: model: AMD A4-9120e RADEON R3 4 COMPUTE CORES 2C+2G bits: 64 type: MCP
arch: Excavator level: v3 note: check built: 2015 process: GF 28nm
family: 0x15 (21) model-id: 0x70 (112) stepping: 0 microcode: 0x6006705
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 2 smt: cache: L1: 192 KiB
desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x64 KiB L2: 2 MiB desc: 2x1024 KiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1100 min/max: 1100/1500 boost: enabled scaling:
driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 1100 2: 1100
bogomips: 5991
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Vulnerabilities:
Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
Type: retbleed mitigation: untrained return thunk; SMT disabled
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
prctl
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, STIBP:
disabled, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Stoney [Radeon R2/R3/R4/R5 Graphics]
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: GCN-3
code: Volcanic Islands process: TSMC 28nm built: 2014-19 ports:
active: eDP-1 empty: HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:01.0 chip-ID: 1002:98e4
class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Quanta VGA WebCam type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 2-4:3
chip-ID: 0408:a031 class-ID: 0e02 serial:
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.7 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.8
compositor: Picom v: git-c4107 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0
screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22")
s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
Monitor-1: eDP-1 mapped: eDP model: BOE Display 0x07cb built: 2018
res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142 gamma: 1.2 size: 344x193mm (13.54x7.6")
diag: 394mm (15.5") ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480
API: OpenGL v: 4.5 Mesa 22.3.6 renderer: AMD Radeon Graphics (stoney LLVM
15.0.7 DRM 3.49 6.2.2-arch1-1) direct-render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: AMD vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:01.1 chip-ID: 1002:15b3 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD Family 15h Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:09.2 chip-ID: 1022:157a
class-ID: 0403
Sound API: ALSA v: k6.2.2-arch1-1 running: yes
Sound Server-1: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: no
Sound Server-2: PipeWire v: 0.3.66 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 1000 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
class-ID: 0200
IF: enp1s0 state: down mac:
Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Lite-On driver: ath10k_pci v: kernel modules: wl pcie: gen: 1
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 168c:0042 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlan0 state: up mac:
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Lite-On Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb
v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-1.1:3 chip-ID: 04ca:3015 class-ID: e001
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: see --recommends
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.03 TiB used: 8.11 GiB (0.8%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Gigabyte model: GP-GSM2NE3128GNTD
size: 119.24 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s
lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: rev: EDFMB0.5 temp: 31.9 C scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LM035-1RK172
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: rev: ACM2 scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 118.74 GiB size: 116.32 GiB (97.96%) used: 8.11 GiB (7.0%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 512 MiB size: 511 MiB (99.80%)
used: 312 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 43.8 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 43.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 169 Uptime: 5m wakeups: 1 Memory: 7.17 GiB used: 1.19 GiB (16.6%)
Init: systemd v: 253 default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers:
gcc: 12.2.1 Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1009 libs: 235 tools: yay Shell: Zsh
v: 5.9 running-in: alacritty inxi: 3.3.25

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Please edit your post for better readability. ( </> …this is the magic sign).
What about the rest ?

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Gees, I wish I could edit that post.

I use Brave as well but I never had this kind of high CPU usage. And are you sure you’re using EndeavourOS?

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We can be shure, he’s not (but I don’t care)

Desktop: i3 v: 4.22 info: polybar vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Archcraft
Info: model: AMD A4-9120e RADEON R3 4 COMPUTE CORES 2C+2G bits: 64 type: MCP
Device-1: AMD Stoney [Radeon R2/R3/R4/R5 Graphics]
driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: GCN-3
Memory: 7.17 GiB used: 1.19 GiB (16.6%)
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.

…but at least we know, he is on AMD IGPU and hazardous running 8 GIB memory without swap.

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Yes, I agree. Wouldn’t it be better if he had a swap or a ZRAM.

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Yeah im using archcraft…and im on this forum as this is the most active forum in terms of arch linux…

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I guess zram os for low memory system…and yeah my Cpu is kinda old…I had low budget while buying this laptop

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This might be an active forum for an Arch-based distro but this is not what you’re using. 8Gb’s are considered SWAP-worthy nowadays.

And from your responses, it seems you want a premade solution without testing things. @banjo did ask for some other information as well which you didn’t provide.

Then @Zircon34 asked if the same thing happens when you use Firefox you just said

Without even trying. A lot of people, are turned off when you reply like this.

As far as I know, Archcraft does do a lot of customizing so there may be many things that are causing the problem. Even a plugin you have.

Did you try using the Brave private browsing mode to see at least that mode also has the same issue?

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yeah I installed firefox right now and its working fine…I installed h264ify now cpu usage is normal…

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Yeah “Based” on Arch. Might differ. That’s why it’s always better to ask in those forums. Not in other forums. Because we don’t know what’s under the hood.

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No sir till now archcraft doesnt have the kind of support which eos gives…that is why im still on this forum :slight_smile:

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No problem. We all are one family. It’s best to mention your distro first. It’ll help immensely. Because all here thinks you’re on :enos:. I don’t know if this needs to be moved to other distros though. I leave it up to our moderators @ricklinux and @dalto.

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