Able to stream 4k videos on youtube in Edge but not in Chrome?

[killerpollo23]

Hi, I've been running some issues in Chrome 64 bit when watching youtube, for reference I have HTML5 video as always on and the extension called "magic actions for youtube" which enable some goodies and the issues are the next:

Videos blink and go black for like half or less of a second and then they recover (audio keeps playing all the time) and today I ran a test on Edge and video runs well and found out that on edge I'm getting faster load time, particularly I'm able to stream 4k video in real time (no buffering) while the same setting stutters on chrome and I have to wait for buffering.

What's more likely, Edge being superior for video?, html5 vs flash all over again?, extension issues or graphics card issue?

 

[Colif]

see if you have latest GPU drivers, that will resolve it being them at least.

perhaps disable that add on in Chrome and see if it makes any difference?

Try disabling hardware acceleration in chrome