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Modern webapps are pure BLOAT blobcatreeeeeee

This is a dual core pentium from ~2007 and its just oof'd

Atleast freebsd doesnt have much overhead
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@ezio I’d argue you spend most CPU time on AV1 decode

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@IoIxD probably will

Just i kinda dont like it as no algorithm to help find more content marisad
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@natty i thought youtube srill used h264? Wtf

This system is too old for an av1 capable gpu anyway so uhhhh
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@ezio if the igpu supports h264 decode you can always try h264ify

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@ezio AV1 is the default, even if it means CPU decode, unless some heuristic falls you back to h264

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@tomo @natty the igpu is geforce 7100. Couldnt get that to work with freebsd iirc so it has a dgpu

ATI Redwood XT GL (aka ATI firepro V4800) is what its running rn.
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@natty @ezio YouTube switched to AV1 years ago (check “stats for nerds”). Even on my Sandy Bridge laptop the CPU is barely (just enough, at 80% usage) able to decode it. You can try some UserScripts / plugins to force H.264.

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@tomo @natty @ezio i've found h264 to be more taxing on my cpu but i have a haswell cpu in my thinkpad so there's at least vp8 support

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@ezio honestly i just do it because my thinkpad only has h264 and nothing else :(

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@niconiconi @natty @ezio AV1 at 4K maxes out one core on my Ryzen 6800U

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@niconiconi @natty @ezio i think a Firefox plugin forces the browser to fetch non av1

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@tomo @natty @ezio sandy bridge still rocks tho

i love supporting not creating more ewaste for the sake of progress and features that get deprecated long before the cpu could become a hindrance in my workflow*

*if i had one

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@ezio @natty

Please consider giving h264ify a try. It's a browser extension forcing YouTube to use h.264 streams.

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