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Hierdie gesprek is in die argief. Vra asseblief 'n nuwe vraag as jy hulp nodig het.

youtube when skip some video time makes hole pc lag

MisterLotospol
MisterLotospol
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Good afternoo, when i'm watching some youtube videos, when i skip some video time my hole pc lags i mean discord firefox itself and i don't know why, it only happen to firefox i tried a bunch of other

Good afternoo, when i'm watching some youtube videos, when i skip some video time my hole pc lags i mean discord firefox itself and i don't know why, it only happen to firefox i tried a bunch of other

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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Hi MisterLotospol, I've read in other threads that when you skip ahead, YouTube may show a lower resolution version of the video, at least until it is able to buffer more. I have not heard that it would cause excessive use of system resources, but perhaps that could also be caused by a change in format.

Does it only happen when you skip ahead?

Could you test the following extension, which blocks VP8 & VP9 video, to see whether it makes any difference: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/h264ify/

MisterLotospol
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I think you resolved my problem thanks