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Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 12:00:31 +0000 Organization: A little, after lunch Lines: 21 Message-ID: <vqrt10$2jeer$4@dont-email.me> References: <eli$2503111519@qaz.wtf> <vqq5qm$253eo$5@dont-email.me> <eli$2503111631@qaz.wtf> <67d0f4ef@news.ausics.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 13:00:32 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="3478bc673219af77b1736ea27ae0a60d"; logging-data="2734555"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1//qDPsJIhEjJThEKCTzaeHNepiXrdo+6A=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:apEBdjTpsNX8pqsgqqTLvSCIA2Q= In-Reply-To: <67d0f4ef@news.ausics.net> Content-Language: en-GB On 12/03/2025 02:43, Computer Nerd Kev wrote: > 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. > yes, that's what I thought might be possible -- Microsoft : the best reason to go to Linux that ever existed.