First off, relevant specs: i5-4200U CPU, intel HD4400 and Radeon R7 M265 GPUs (latter not involved I think) 8GB RAM, screen resolution 1366x768, Windows 10. Oh and youtube is using the HTML5 player.
As the resolution is what it is, youtube's player sets itself at 480p. Idk if it does this with 1080p screens but I wouldn't know about those.
Starting at the start of January, I noticed some odd behavior with quite a few youtube videos: It would stick on the first frame of a video. It took about a week to find the common thread: they were all uploaded at below 480p, meaning they had to be upscaled. Around the 15th they started playing again, but with much higher CPU usage than >=480p videos. I've tried every video I could and I get the same results. I know the drivers for the iGPU haven't changed at all and GPU-Z tells me that nether GPU is even closed to stressed. I've checked chrome's task manager and found the "GPU process" gets quite ravenous. Though I don't think it should matter, the problem persists on external monitors of the same resolution (there's an old 1280x1024 monitor lying around but laptops don't have DVI outputs).
Does anyone have any idea what changed and/or what to do to fix it?
As the resolution is what it is, youtube's player sets itself at 480p. Idk if it does this with 1080p screens but I wouldn't know about those.
Starting at the start of January, I noticed some odd behavior with quite a few youtube videos: It would stick on the first frame of a video. It took about a week to find the common thread: they were all uploaded at below 480p, meaning they had to be upscaled. Around the 15th they started playing again, but with much higher CPU usage than >=480p videos. I've tried every video I could and I get the same results. I know the drivers for the iGPU haven't changed at all and GPU-Z tells me that nether GPU is even closed to stressed. I've checked chrome's task manager and found the "GPU process" gets quite ravenous. Though I don't think it should matter, the problem persists on external monitors of the same resolution (there's an old 1280x1024 monitor lying around but laptops don't have DVI outputs).
Does anyone have any idea what changed and/or what to do to fix it?
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