06-02-2022, 06:15 AM
(05-31-2022, 02:21 PM)catloaf Wrote:(05-29-2022, 05:29 PM)tmschmitz Wrote: I use my pinebook pro as a daily driver. I have had no issues with 1080p in mpv, although I usually opt for 720p to save space. I hadn't tested anything higher, or youtube in chromium ( I typically run a fairly tied down firefox with noscript, and open videos in mpv ), but but your query made me curious, so I found an HD video on youtube in chromium, and tried it in 1080p, 1440p, and 2160p. 1080p and 1440p worked fine, with only one or two pauses right at the start, then all went smoothly and looked nice. 2160 was unbearable with all the hiccups and stalls. In mpv at 2160 it was noticible, but bearable.
Does stats for nerds show any dropped frames? Also what is cpu usage like, basically is it hardware accelerated?
Youtube's vp9 codec is not hw accelerated and drops a lot a frames, there are extensions that will disable this codec however.
With other codecs you get a few dropped frames, but nothing major (tested on 720p@60 avc1)
Like the person above also mentioned, you can also use mpv and ytdl to stream videos with no dropped frames and generally better load times.
general web browsing is a breeze for me but I do not visit particularly intense websites. I have found that things such as webmail and blogs work perfectly fine. Sites with heavy javascript such as news websites or social media platforms are sluggish but using a content blocker already helps with that.
