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From: Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid>
Subject: Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub
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Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:
> The hub works fine during more CPU intensive tasks like compiling or
> video transcoding. And video playback in mplayer works just fine. I can
> even play youtube downloaded videos in mplayer while transcoding and
> there are no issues.
> 
> It's specific to Firefox playing the video.

Does Firefox use GPU hardware video decoding (look for
"HARDWARE_VIDEO_DECODING" on the about:support page)? I'm not sure
if mplayer does hardware video decoding, ffmpeg requires specific
options to enable it. You also need the relevent drivers installed.
Hardware will also only support certain codecs, so it's possible
that only Firefox is using it, with a video format used by YouTube.

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