Youtube and other HD video performing better in Windows than in Linux

[ryuki7]

I built an AM1 Athlon 5350 PC (4GB 1600 Mhz Ram on MSI AM1I Motherboard, HD5350 512 MB Video Card) intending to use it for Linux Mint. On Firefox I was getting laggy video at 720p as well as screen tearing on Youtube. Furthermore I was getting very limited resolution choices. Works better on Chrome but was still stuttering. I loaded Windows 8.1 on the same system and it's running very smoothly even showing up to 1440 resolution w/o lag.

Why is it that Youtube runs like crap on Linux (I tried Zorin and Lubuntu also) but runs well on Windows?

 

[getochkn]

Then that version of linux doesn't have good video drivers for your card and can't provide any hardware acceleration. If it works good in Windows, and not Linux, then it's a driver issue.

 

[skittle]

no secret that flash and html5 video suck on linux,

try instead with mpv+youtube-dl

mpv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PN5JJDh78I

In firefox I have this extension, and there are many others:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/watch-with-mpv/