Hey Jow Forumsuys

Hey Jow Forumsuys
I'm not very versed in computers and I'm fairly new to linux, but I've noticed a problem lately.
I've added a CPU load monitor to my taskbar and I notice that the usage gets extremely high when watching Youtube videos and using my browser in general. I've tried both Firefox and Chromium but they both use up to 200% of my CPU just by having a single tab open and watching a video.
If anyone knows a fix to this please share.

Pic related are my specs. It's on an ASUS laptop, model K556U.

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install gentoo

Windows 10 doesn't have this problem

Install Ubuntu Kernel Update Utility
Update your kernel so at least 4.17
It's a lot better on this kernel

Don't be scared of updating your kernel.
This updater is point and click.
No terminalmagic required

Thanks bro, I'll try that out and see if it helps

Would like to keep Ubuntu if possible

You can always switch back your kernel with this utility if nessesary

>Ubuntu
Found the problem.

Don't fall for the gentoo meme, but Ubuntu is unironically bloated to hell.
Have you considered your load monitor is wrong?

install htop
sudo apt-get install htop
and then run htop.
htop
It shows everything in a much more detailed manner. Post screenshot then

Here's the screenshot. I honestly just installed Ubuntu because it seemed the easiest to manage. As I've said I don't have a lot of experience, I've only ever used Windows before.

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>install debian
that's a feature
FYI arch and maybe other distros like fedora don't have this problem

debian and any of it's offshoots have crap video performance, meaning to play a video they rape the cpu compared to what i've seen elsewhere on the same pc
congrats, you fell for the real Jow Forums meme

Install beigenet from ubuntu software center extensions.
It will use the Intel GPU for decoding videos then
Also you might wanna try firefox.
Chome/Chromium is extremely shitty on linux

Look homies, I'm going to be level with you. I have absolutely no background in programming or computer science and I don't want to use an OS that makes me write shell scripts just so I can set my monitor brightness. I also don't want to use an OS that comes with Minecraft preinstalled and sells my personal info to fund Bill Gates' sixth mansion. Ubuntu just seemed like a reasonable middle ground to me.

Will try but as I've said Firefox and Chromium both give me the same issue.

Fuck off with your ”hurr durr bloat” faggotry.
Ubuntu being heavier than Debian or Arch or whatever isn't the cause of this, and you know it.

How is CPU usage when watching a video on your desktop? If you youtube-dl something and then watch it offline, does it spike? Good chance your browsers aren't using the GPU to decode the video. The answers talking about your GPU drivers are probably where you want to look. Also, I can't remember how, but look up how to force YT to use h264 decoding instead of webm. AFAIK, webm is still completely reliant on the CPU to decode.

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>I don't want to use an OS that makes me write shell scripts just so I can set my monitor brightness. I also don't want to use an OS that comes with Minecraft preinstalled and sells my personal info to fund Bill Gates' sixth mansion
wtf are you talking about

>How is CPU usage when watching a video on your desktop
it's bad even with mpv

then what the fuck are do doing on Jow Forums, maybe you should ask on ubuntu forum, I heard that people here are mostly nice

-f (bestvideo[ext=mp4][height

there should be a warning in the sticky to NOT install debian-anything without testing it's live cd first

im tired of posting this

Don't worry about it op but if it bothers you, you probably should install the non-free nvidya driver.

Ignore this advice, it is not good or relevant, and if you're running NVIDIA drivers will push your shit in. Only morons mention bloat, and the seemingly high 200% usage is an illusion due to hyperthreading.

Chances are you're using the nouveau driver. Advice is to install NVIDIA blob driver.

op, any particular reason you're the older lts?

I do think I have the noveau one, will try this too.

What do you mean? I've tried the newest 18.something release but I don't like the gnome environment as much as 16.04

Think of downgrading from 18.04 to 16.04 only for Unity
What do you think Jow Forumsuys?

If you have win and same problem occurs, it's most likely to be hardware problem

you can still run unity in 18.04

Yeah but they use the new unity8
I miss the old one :(

It has to do with video drivers. Vdpau I think it is called?

I don't know about Chromium, but in Firefox, enter about:config and change:

layers.acceleration.force-enabled = true

webgl.force-enabled = true

media.hardware-video-decoding.force-enabled = true

Which should make use of hardware acceleration to ease the CPU burden.

>i3
you fell for the meme faggot

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>u8
no they dont, that was only ever an experimental session on 17.10

stop spreading fake news, he is probably just missing gpu drivers or accelerated video libraries

there is literally no reason why specific distro should have "crappy performance", its literally the same software as any other distro

>I have the noveau one
there it is, case closed

This, but why not make it a bit simpler.
mpv --ytdl-format="best[height

Browsers weren't meant to play video. Play videos in mpv.

The absolute state of ((((systemd))))

Hey bros, OP here.
Setting my driver to the proprietary one fixed my issue. Thanks a lot xoxo

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Could be, but Windows 7 absolutely did have this problem. Back then, I worked around it by using Pale Meme for Youtube instead of Firefox.

Not OP but I'd rather listen to autists who don't shill for the same distro, everyone on the Ubuntu forums shills for Ubuntu just like everyone on the Arch forums shills for Arch and so on.

>probably just missing gpu drivers or accelerated video libraries
very doubtful, by default when you install something apt pull everything plus the kitchen sink

>just like everyone on the Arch forums shills for Arch
uh no but they do have a strict _for_ distro policy
you wouldn't use their forum to troubleshoot fedora now would you

he asked for mp4

>17.10
that was broken af

stop stopping my reboot

do you want to know how i know that you have never used debian-based distro for more than a few days?

i said by default

neither debian nor ubuntu installs proprietary gpu drivers by default - which are necessary for accelerated video playback

i don't have prop drivers
i have acc video playback
what nao

lies

AO: [pulse] 48000Hz 5.1(side) 6ch float
Using hardware decoding (vdpau).
VO: [vdpau] 718x432 => 1021x432 vdpau[yuv420p]
AV: 00:00:01 / 02:04:55 (0%) A-V: 0.000

mesa 18.1.2-1 [installed]
xf86-video-ati 1:18.0.1-2 [installed]


i sincerely understand it's hard to believe as a debianboi

LIES LIES LIES

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that was ytdl/config user