720p60/1080p60 dropping frames - your experience/CPU usage?

[escrow4]

Curious, is Youtube dropping frames for you? I had a G1850 @ 2.90GHz (Haswell Celeron) chucked it today simply because it was dropping too many. Wasn't happening with a 4770 I had. Same connection, same router. This is a clean 8.1 install (month old) with Chrome stable 44. So chucked in an i3 4170 @ 3.7GHz today and the fluidity is back I had with the 4770 but its still dropping. Are you having frame drops?

Test link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKM5B7ykQBs

Hitting 60% CPU usage too, connection is around 11000 Kbps. Right click, stats for nerds . . . . . . .

EDIT: Add CPU/GPU model and chrome version too.

 

[bigboxes]

My cpu usage is between 1-3%. Memory usage around 5GB. Barely any frame drops in 5 minutes of 1080p play (3/4534 frames).

Edit: Sorry. Forgot to include cpu/gpu. i7 4790K/MSI GTX 970 Gaming 4G. Thanks escrow4 for the reminder. Oh and no chrome. FF v39

 

[escrow4]

My cpu usage is between 1-3%. Memory usage around 5GB. Barely any frame drops in 5 minutes of 1080p play (3/4534 frames).

With a 970?

 

[Burpo]

Intel i3 2130 @ 1080p, cpu usage 65-67% with few frames dropped in 5 minutes (no discrete graphics card).

 

[frozentundra123456]

Something seems off with that video. I am seeing almost 50% cpu usage with my sandy i5. That is about twice what I see with any other videos.

 

[Burpo]

Chrome 43
Xeon E5640, GTX 570, no frames drop, 15-17% CPU at 4.4Ghz.


Pretty taxing on the old Kentsfield Xeon (more processes running) w/GTX 560..

 

[bigboxes]

Reran the test again after installing Chrome v44.0.2403.89 m. Results were pretty much the same. Nice looking video on my monitor.

 

[escrow4]

This is fascinating. Offline, this 4170 (and the G1850 I had previously) had (and have) no issues with 4K, 1080p L4.1, and 720p. This 4170 I have right now installed can decode (offline) 1080p with less than 5% usage with Adaptive de-interlacing turned on, 10-20% 4K via QuickSync. Youtube, standard 720/1080 next to no dropped frames on 24FPS standard HD. 60FPS absolutely hammers it.

Anyone else?

EDIT: Reinstalled latest HD 4400 drivers and am on Chrome dev now, no difference.

EDIT 2: Is Google watching? <50% CPU usage now, frames dropping less now. The plot thickens!

 

[2is]

Using IE, no skipped frames on specs in sig. GPU usage on my 680 was 14% and CPU was nearly idle, didn't even clock itself up to full speed. I also played it in my secondary monitor which is connected to the IGP, no skipped frames there either, but CPU usage was higher, but not by a whole lot.

bit rate was at a little over 95000 kbps and rising when I stopped watching.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I had like 3 frames dropped, halfway through the video, then I realized, I had to manually set it to 1080P.
That's not a 1080P60 video though. It was showing as 30FPS for me. I had around 251 dropped frames total, at the end of the video. Seemed a little bit choppy at times.

75/75 FIOS connection, G3258 @ 3.6Ghz, 7950 3GB video card, Linux Mint 17.1, non-proprietary video drivers, software rendering.

Edit: Oh, one of my two CPU cores was running BOINC (WCG).

Edit: Without BOINC actively running a task, I get around 50% CPU usage on both cores.

 

[VirtualLarry]

bit rate was at a little over 95000 kbps and rising when I stopped watching.

Whaaat? Mine was showing 4506Kbit/sec steady.

 

[richierich1212]

No dropped frames on my 4700HQ + 840M:

 

[escrow4]

I had like 3 frames dropped, halfway through the video, then I realized, I had to manually set it to 1080P.
That's not a 1080P60 video though. It was showing as 30FPS for me. I had around 251 dropped frames total, at the end of the video. Seemed a little bit choppy at times.

75/75 FIOS connection, G3258 @ 3.6Ghz, 7950 3GB video card, Linux Mint 17.1, non-proprietary video drivers, software rendering.

Edit: Oh, one of my two CPU cores was running BOINC (WCG).

Edit: Without BOINC actively running a task, I get around 50% CPU usage on both cores.

Original post, that link, then click the settings icon and set it to 1080/60p. Seems like for smooth 60 FPS decoding you need a dedicated GPU. Partially the connection for me I suppose, but equally you need grunt. Hmmm . . .

EDIT:

 

[2is]

Whaaat? Mine was showing 4506Kbit/sec steady.

Yep

 

[VirtualLarry]

Original post, that link, then click the settings icon and set it to 1080/60p. Seems like for smooth 60 FPS decoding you need a dedicated GPU. Partially the connection for me I suppose, but equally you need grunt. Hmmm . . .

There is no setting for "1080p60". Only "1080p". Which is 30FPS on my rig.

Edit: You have to remember, I'm on Linux. Newest Flash Player for Linux is 11.x.

 

[escrow4]

There is no setting for "1080p60". Only "1080p". Which is 30FPS on my rig.

Edit: You have to remember, I'm on Linux. Newest Flash Player for Linux is 11.x.

Running Chrome?

 

[TheELF]

Youtube ,and chrome for that matter, have switched to html5 for a while now,html5 is actually even more demanding than flash... (pause fro dramatic effect) try the Disable Youtube&#8482; HTML5 Player extension and test with flash.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Running Chrome?

No, the Firefox that comes with Linux Mint 17.1, updated. (39.0, I think.)

There is no 1080p60 setting, only 1080p.