My browser drops a bunch of frames while playing YouTube videos

On both chromium and firefox, my laptop drops frames when using the Wayland session while playing YouTube videos. My laptop is not bad at all. This occurs in both chromium and firefox.

I have hardware acceleration turned on on chromium. (Ozone platform auto, vaapivideodecode and encode turned on, zero copy turned on, gpu rasterization turned on).

And firefox comes with hardware acceleration turned on ootb.

Both have the same issue. Firefox has this issue on x11 as well while chromium doesn’t. Chromium is fine on x11. ( I don’t want to use x11. It is less secure)

My hardware specs are
Intel Pentium silver n6000 4c4t ( for reference, it is as powerful as core i3 10110u).
8GB ram
SSD.
Fast and stable internet.
Default kernel.
Kde plasma.

(This issue is a problem on gnome as well. But not on wms like hyprland).

( If I have the enabled wrong flags in chromium, please provide me the correct flags to enabled hardware acceleration).

Please post some system information; output from the following command should be sufficient:

inxi --admin --verbosity=8 --filter --no-host --width

ok

here

  Kernel: 6.10.11-2-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
    clocksource: tsc avail: acpi_pm
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-6.10-x86_64
    root=UUID=25ae9fe1-a698-4529-afbe-c4484dce3604 rw rootflags=subvol=@ quiet
    splash udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.1.5 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.5.0
    wm: kwin_wayland vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: VivoBook_ASUSLaptop E410KA_E410KA
    v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: E410KA v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
    uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: E410KA.320
    date: 03/01/2024
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 31.9 Wh (100.0%) condition: 31.9/42.1 Wh (75.7%)
    volts: 11.8 min: 11.8 model: ASUSTeK ASUS Battery type: Li-ion serial: N/A
    status: not charging cycles: 112
Memory:
  System RAM: total: 8 GiB available: 7.54 GiB used: 1.9 GiB (25.2%)
  Message: For most reliable report, use superuser + dmidecode.
  Array-1: capacity: 32 GiB slots: 2 modules: 1 EC: None
    max-module-size: 16 GiB note: est.
  Device-1: Controller0-ChannelA-DIMM0 type: no module installed
  Device-2: Controller0-ChannelB type: DDR4 detail: synchronous size: 8 GiB
    speed: spec: 3200 MT/s actual: 2933 MT/s volts: note: check curr: 1 min: 1
    max: 1 width (bits): data: 64 total: 64 manufacturer: Micron Technology
    part-no: 4ATF51264HZ-3G2J1 serial: N/A
PCI Slots:
  Permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Pentium Silver N6000 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Alder Lake
    level: v2 built: 2021+ process: Intel 7 (10nm ESF) family: 6
    model-id: 0x9C (156) stepping: 0 microcode: 0x24000026
  Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 1 cores: 4 smt: <unsupported> cache:
    L1: 256 KiB desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 1.5 MiB desc: 1x1.5 MiB
    L3: 4 MiB desc: 1x4 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/3300 scaling: driver: intel_pstate
    governor: powersave cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 bogomips: 8912
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch acpi aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_capabilities
    arch_perfmon art bts cat_l2 cdp_l2 clflush clflushopt clwb cmov
    constant_tsc cpuid cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb
    ept ept_ad erms est flexpriority flush_l1d fpu fsgsbase fxsr gfni ht hwp
    hwp_act_window hwp_epp hwp_notify hwp_pkg_req ibpb ibrs ibrs_enhanced ida
    intel_pt lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor movbe movdir64b movdiri
    msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe pclmulqdq pdcm pebs pge pln pni
    popcnt pse pse36 pts rdpid rdrand rdseed rdt_a rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep
    sha_ni smap smep split_lock_detect ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3
    stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer
    tsc_known_freq umip vme vmx vnmi vpid waitpkg x2apic xgetbv1 xsave xsavec
    xsaveopt xsaves xtopology xtpr
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: mmio_stale_data mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled
  Type: reg_file_data_sampling mitigation: Clear Register File
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
    prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
    sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Enhanced / Automatic IBRS; IBPB: conditional;
    RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: SW loop, KVM: SW loop
  Type: srbds status: Vulnerable: No microcode
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel JasperLake [UHD Graphics] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: i915
    v: kernel arch: Gen-11 process: Intel 10nm built: 2019-21 ports:
    active: eDP-1 empty: HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:4e71
    class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: IMC Networks USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam driver: uvcvideo type: USB
    rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-4:3 chip-ID: 13d3:56e6
    class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
  Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.13 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.2
    compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa
    dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: 0
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 res: 1920x1080 size: N/A modes: N/A
  API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris platforms: device: 0 drv: iris
    device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: iris surfaceless: drv: iris wayland:
    drv: iris x11: drv: iris
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 24.2.2-arch1.1
    glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics (JSL)
    device-ID: 8086:4e71 memory: 3.68 GiB unified: yes display-ID: :1.0
  API: Vulkan v: 1.3.295 layers: N/A device: 0 type: integrated-gpu
    name: Intel UHD Graphics (JSL) driver: mesa intel v: 24.2.2-arch1.1
    device-ID: 8086:4e71 surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Jasper Lake HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_avs,snd_sof_pci_intel_icl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
    chip-ID: 8086:4dc8 class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.10.11-2-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
    type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
  Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.2.3 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
    tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
    vendor: AzureWave driver: ath10k_pci v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 168c:0042 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
    broadcast: <filter>
  IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
  Info: services: NetworkManager, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant
  WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: IMC Networks driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
    lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-8:4 chip-ID: 13d3:3496 class-ID: e001
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: see --recommends
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 16.03 GiB (6.7%)
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital model: PC SN530
    SDBPNPZ-256G-1002 size: 238.47 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
    logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter>
    fw-rev: 21106000 temp: 31.9 C scheme: GPT
  Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 238.17 GiB size: 238.17 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 16.03 GiB (6.7%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
    label: N/A uuid: 25ae9fe1-a698-4529-afbe-c4484dce3604
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
    used: 584 KiB (0.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 label: N/A
    uuid: 1474-7EA6
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 238.17 GiB size: 238.17 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 16.03 GiB (6.7%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
    label: N/A uuid: 25ae9fe1-a698-4529-afbe-c4484dce3604
  ID-4: /swap raw-size: 238.17 GiB size: 238.17 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 16.03 GiB (6.7%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
    label: N/A uuid: 25ae9fe1-a698-4529-afbe-c4484dce3604
  ID-5: /var/cache raw-size: 238.17 GiB size: 238.17 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 16.03 GiB (6.7%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
    label: N/A uuid: 25ae9fe1-a698-4529-afbe-c4484dce3604
  ID-6: /var/log raw-size: 238.17 GiB size: 238.17 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 16.03 GiB (6.7%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
    label: N/A uuid: 25ae9fe1-a698-4529-afbe-c4484dce3604
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: yes
    compressor: zstd max-pool: 20%
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 4 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
    file: /swapfile
Unmounted:
  Message: No unmounted partitions found.
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 8 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
    class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 1-1:2 info: USB OPTICAL MOUSE type: mouse
    driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s (183 KiB/s)
    lanes: 1 mode: 1.0 power: 100mA chip-ID: 275d:0ba6 class-ID: 0301
  Device-2: 1-4:3 info: IMC Networks USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam type: video
    driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1
    mode: 2.0 power: 500mA chip-ID: 13d3:56e6 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
  Device-3: 1-8:4 info: IMC Networks type: bluetooth driver: btusb
    interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 1.1
    power: 100mA chip-ID: 13d3:3496 class-ID: e001
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 6 rev: 3.1
    speed: 10 Gb/s (1.16 GiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-2x1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
    class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 53.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (rpm): cpu: 0
Repos:
  Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1229 libs: 354 tools: pamac pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
  Active pacman repo servers in: /etc/pacman.d/chaotic-mirrorlist
    1: https://cdn-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
    2: https://geo-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
    3: https://br-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
    4: https://bg-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
    5: https://ca-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
    6: https://cl-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
    7: https://de-2-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
    8: https://de-3-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
    9: https://de-4-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
    10: https://fr-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
    11: https://gr-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
    12: https://in-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
    13: https://in-2-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
    14: https://in-3-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
    15: https://in-4-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
    16: https://kr-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
    17: https://es-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
    18: https://es-2-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
    19: https://us-mi-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
    20: https://us-tx-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
    21: https://us-ut-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
  Active pacman repo servers in: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
    1: http://manjaro.mirrors.uk2.net/stable/$repo/$arch
    2: https://nnenix.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    3: https://edgeuno-bog2.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
Processes:
  CPU top: 5 of 238
  1: cpu: 11.2% command: chromium pid: 1757 mem: 242.9 MiB (3.1%)
  2: cpu: 9.9% command: jamesdsp pid: 1113 mem: 160.7 MiB (2.0%)
  3: cpu: 5.9% command: chromium pid: 1256 mem: 299.3 MiB (3.8%)
  4: cpu: 5.0% command: kwin_wayland pid: 697 mem: 181.0 MiB (2.3%)
  5: cpu: 4.4% command: chromium pid: 1337 mem: 144.6 MiB (1.8%)
  Memory top: 5 of 238
  1: mem: 330.8 MiB (4.2%) command: plasmashell pid: 855 cpu: 3.3%
  2: mem: 299.3 MiB (3.8%) command: chromium pid: 1256 cpu: 5.9%
  3: mem: 242.9 MiB (3.1%) command: chromium pid: 1757 cpu: 11.2%
  4: mem: 195.6 MiB (2.5%) command: konsole pid: 1783 cpu: 1.0%
  5: mem: 188.1 MiB (2.4%) command: chromium pid: 1701 cpu: 1.2%
Info:
  Processes: 238 Power: uptime: 4m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
    avail: s2idle wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot,
    suspend, test_resume image: 3 GiB services: org_kde_powerdevil,
    power-profiles-daemon, upowerd Init: systemd v: 256 default: graphical
    tool: systemctl
  Compilers: N/A Shell: Zsh v: 5.9 default: Bash v: 5.2.32
    running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.36
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I have more of an issue with uploaders making anything above 480p 60fps-only.

Roughly double bandwidth and CPU/GPU load. Regardless if the content actually benefits in any way from it. (Cathode Ray Dude, are you listening?)

Only thing I can suggest with your hardware is to avoid 60fps videos, where possible.

Well, works correctly on x11. Even 1440p60 works and 4k30 works. Why does 1080p60 on wayland lag? 4/10000 frames is bad.

I am ok with only 0 or 1 dropped frame. Even 1440p60 fps on x11 doesn’t drop frames.

Then you have found the obvious workaround.

You could either get into a habit of switching between X11 and Wayland, as some are still forced to do for various reasons, or persist with trying to find some way to minimise the effect in Wayland (and hopefully help others with a similar issue).

The choice is yours.

Cheers.

It’s worth noting that one of the differences with Wayland is vsync (vertical synchronization, also known as screen-tearing prevention) which may cause dropped frames, where they wouldn’t necessarily be dropped in x11 as the next frame can be sent part way through drawing the current one, in case of display lag.

There are settings for this e.g. in Plasma:
System SettingsDisplay and Monitor → should be last item on list:
Screen tearing: ⌷ Allow in fullscreen windows.

Check the box (✓), see if that makes any difference.

I’m not experience this frame drops in 1080p@60Hz on my AMD Laptop (Wayland).

Maybe a Intel iGPU problem or bad driver setting :thinking:

Are you see this missing frames in the first few seconds after the video is loaded or you see missing frames even when the video is running for a good amount of time?

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Neither am I (admittedly I’m using a more performant system).

Has the OP tried running Firefox and Chromium without extensions loaded (safe-mode or whatever it’s called)?

Does the issue magically go away when you do?

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I need to have an adblocking extension.

What is you cpu/gpu?

With Firefox, check what hardware & software decoding is enabled by going to about:support and scrolling down to the media section. You should have a section like this:

Note that I use an AMD Ryzen which won’t play some patent encumbered codecs, so my output will be different to your Intel graphics.

Then, when playing a problematic video on YouTube, right-click on the video & select “Stats for nerds”, and a small window showing information such as the codec the video is using will be displayed:

Screenshot_20241004_144029

That might help you to work out if it is a hardware or software decoding problem. You can also change the video codec YouTube prefers in YouTube Account Settings - Playback. For example, because my GPU doesn’t HW decode AV1 videos, I set my account to prefer AV1 for SD videos, which means it will use VP9 (if available for that video) for HD videos - my GPU can HW decode VP9.

So, I probably haven’t provided a solution, but hopefully this will help you with troubleshooting the issue.

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System:
  Kernel: 6.6.52-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
    clocksource: tsc avail: hpet,acpi_pm
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-6.6-x86_64
    root=UUID=117a5f35-5599-4992-850a-7d04cb4bca27 rw udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.1.5 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.5.0
    wm: kwin_wayland vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: TUXEDO product: TUXEDO Pulse 15 Gen1 v: Standard
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: NB02 model: PULSE1501 v: Standard serial: <superuser required>
    part-nu: PULSE1501 uuid: <superuser required> BIOS: American Megatrends
    v: N.1.07.A03 date: 05/11/2021
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 42.2 Wh (46.1%) condition: 91.6/91.6 Wh (100.0%)
    volts: 11.3 min: 11.6 model: standard type: Li-ion serial: <filter>
    status: discharging
Memory:
  System RAM: total: 16 GiB available: 15.04 GiB used: 3.82 GiB (25.4%)
  Message: For most reliable report, use superuser + dmidecode.
  Array-1: capacity: 32 GiB slots: 2 modules: 2 EC: None
    max-module-size: 16 GiB note: est.
  Device-1: Channel-A DIMM 0 type: DDR4 detail: synchronous unbuffered
    (unregistered) size: 8 GiB speed: 3200 MT/s volts: note: check curr: 1
    min: 1 max: 1 width (bits): data: 64 total: 64 manufacturer: Samsung
    part-no: M471A1K43DB1-CWE serial: <filter>
  Device-2: Channel-B DIMM 0 type: DDR4 detail: synchronous unbuffered
    (unregistered) size: 8 GiB speed: 3200 MT/s volts: note: check curr: 1
    min: 1 max: 1 width (bits): data: 64 total: 64 manufacturer: Samsung
    part-no: M471A1K43DB1-CWE serial: <filter>
CPU:
  Info: model: AMD Ryzen 7 4800H with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Zen 2 gen: 2 level: v3 note: check built: 2020-22
    process: TSMC n7 (7nm) family: 0x17 (23) model-id: 0x60 (96) stepping: 1
    microcode: 0x8600103
  Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 1 cores: 8 threads: 16 tpc: 2
    smt: enabled cache: L1: 512 KiB desc: d-8x32 KiB; i-8x32 KiB L2: 4 MiB
    desc: 8x512 KiB L3: 8 MiB desc: 2x4 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1400 min/max: 1400/2900 boost: enabled scaling:
    driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 1400 2: 1400 3: 1400
    4: 1400 5: 1400 6: 1400 7: 1400 8: 1400 9: 1400 10: 1400 11: 1400 12: 1400
    13: 1400 14: 1400 15: 1400 16: 1400 bogomips: 92659
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
  Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: retbleed mitigation: untrained return thunk; SMT enabled with STIBP
    protection
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow mitigation: Safe RET
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
    prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
    sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines; IBPB: conditional; STIBP:
    always-on; RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: Not affected
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Renoir [Radeon Vega Series /
    Radeon Mobile Series] vendor: Tongfang Hongkong driver: amdgpu v: kernel
    arch: GCN-5 code: Vega process: GF 14nm built: 2017-20 pcie: gen: 4
    speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: eDP-1 empty: HDMI-A-1
    bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:1636 class-ID: 0300 temp: 31.0 C
  Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.13 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.2
    compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: amdgpu unloaded: modesetting
    alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu display-ID: 0
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 res: 1920x1080 size: N/A modes: N/A
  API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: amd radeonsi platforms: device: 0 drv: radeonsi
    device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: kms_swrast surfaceless: drv: radeonsi
    wayland: drv: radeonsi x11: drv: radeonsi
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 24.2.2-arch1.1
    glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon Graphics (radeonsi renoir
    LLVM 18.1.8 DRM 3.54 6.6.52-1-MANJARO) device-ID: 1002:1636 memory: 500 MiB
    unified: no display-ID: :1.0
  API: Vulkan v: 1.3.295 layers: 4 device: 0 type: integrated-gpu name: AMD
    Radeon Graphics (RADV RENOIR) driver: mesa radv v: 24.2.2-arch1.1
    device-ID: 1002:1636 surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland
Audio:
  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Renoir Radeon High Definition
    Audio vendor: Tongfang Hongkong driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:
    gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 02:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1637
    class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor
    vendor: Tongfang Hongkong driver: N/A alternate: snd_pci_acp3x,
    snd_rn_pci_acp3x, snd_pci_acp5x, snd_pci_acp6x, snd_acp_pci,
    snd_rpl_pci_acp6x, snd_pci_ps, snd_sof_amd_renoir, snd_sof_amd_rembrandt,
    snd_sof_amd_vangogh pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 02:00.5
    chip-ID: 1022:15e2 class-ID: 0480
  Device-3: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h/19h HD Audio
    vendor: Tongfang Hongkong driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 4
    speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 02:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.6.52-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
    type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
  Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.2.3 status: off with: pipewire-media-session
    status: active tools: pw-cli
  Server-3: PulseAudio v: 17.0 status: active with: 1: pulseaudio-alsa
    type: plugin 2: pulseaudio-jack type: module tools: pacat,pactl
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Tongfang Hongkong driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: f000 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
    class-ID: 0200
  IF: eno1 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  Info: services: NetworkManager
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX200 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-4.4:4 chip-ID: 8087:0029
    class-ID: e001
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: N/A rfk-block:
    hardware: no software: yes address: see --recommends
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 23.43 GiB (5.0%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO M.2 500GB
    size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 4B6Q scheme: MBR
  Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 240.66 GiB size: 235.82 GiB (97.99%) used: 16.42 GiB (7.0%)
    fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 label: Root
    uuid: 117a5f35-5599-4992-850a-7d04cb4bca27
  ID-2: /boot raw-size: 500 MiB size: 458.3 MiB (91.67%)
    used: 117.8 MiB (25.7%) fs: ext3 dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: Boot
    uuid: be5baa10-5f66-4e30-b9c6-a1788e510c69
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 175.78 GiB size: 171.96 GiB (97.83%)
    used: 6.89 GiB (4.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3 label: Home
    uuid: 71a27b4e-f3fb-43e1-8e9d-8f5eec561bdd
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 32.8 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 31.0 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 299 Power: uptime: 10h 12m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
    avail: s2idle wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot,
    suspend, test_resume image: 6 GiB services: org_kde_powerdevil,upowerd
    Init: systemd v: 256 default: graphical tool: systemctl
  Packages: 1495 pm: pacman pkgs: 1491 libs: 399 tools: pamac pm: flatpak
    pkgs: 4 Compilers: clang: 18.1.8 gcc: 14.2.1 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.32
    running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.36

ublock origin is one (ad-blocking) extension which needs little resources
zero ads on YT - I’d go insane without it

and there is one called h264ify
YouTube videos are available in different formats - this selects / forces to use a format that probably any GPU can handle via hardware acceleration

There where different variants of this and maybe even others that let you prefer other codecs.
I still have one (installed but deactivated) called enhanced-264ify.

It has been a while since I used it/needed it.

So, you’re taking a dismissive tone simply because you’re too lazy to take a valid step in diagnosing the issue? Is that it?

We all (most of us) use security addons.

Attempting to run these browsers without extensions will help determine whether or not one of them might be contributing. If this indeed makes a noticeable difference, then you would need to re-evaluate your choice of browser extensions.

I’m sure that in the grand scheme of things you can survive being without adblocking long enough to test the theory, don’t you?

Incidentally;

This is the most recommended extension; I use it also.

Cheers.

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… if you aren’t prepared to experiment to test things, how will you know?

I have only one adblocker extension now, and it does not seem to interfere with playback:

I’ve just removed Adblock Plus from the other machine due to its interference with my browsing session (spawning a new tab as soon as I sent a tab from this machine, to let me know it had updated and also to beg for a donation, switching to it without my prompting). :rage:

Anything that gets in the way is not welcome! :hammer:

Ublock origin is the number one ad blocker extension.

A quick (extension) disable and enable don’t hurt anyone.

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Theres lots of crap blockers out there. ABP is one of them.

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