YouTube slow and unresponsive, lag is fixed when e.g. Brave is open in the background

[danielwies]

What happened?

When ONLY Zen is open and a youtube video is playing, if you for example jump to a specific time in the video it takes 1-2 sec before any audio is being played. Interestingly this works totally fine if I have my original browser (Brave) running in the background doing absolutely nothing. As soon as I close Brave it starts to lag again -> opening Brave again and it's fixed. This is reproducible for me every single time.

Reproducible?

• I have checked that this issue cannot be reproduced on Mozilla Firefox.

Version

1.0.0-a.32 (64-bit)

Severity impact

High

What platform are you seeing the problem on?

Windows

Relevant log output

No response

[PowerzinBR]

is brave using hardware optimization? this may happen because brave is managing some of your computer resources in a positively way, but i'm not sure so i can't confirm!

[TomTruyen]

I think by default in Firefox based browser GPU acceleration is off. You could try to enable it:

1. type about:config in the address bar.
2. in the search bar type gfx.webrender.all and set it to true.
3. in the search bar type media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled and set it to true.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/xcikym/tutorial_how_to_enable_hardware_video/

[mauro-balades]

Im enabling these by default for the next release 👍🏽