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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by user5994461 on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @03:54PM (#14091822)
I meant 1080p when I said full HD.

It takes a surprising amount of power to decode. The cheap CPU from netbooks have been struggling for a decade, especially in battery power saving mode.

Lately, they get hardware acceleration just for that. Special CPU instructions and drivers just to achieve that decently.

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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by voltagex_ on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @08:02PM (#14093622)
For Youtube in particular, they're sending VP9+opus where the browser supports it, without considering hardware acceleration. The rather anaemic Atom chips might have H264 decoding on-chip, but only Kabylake has VP9.
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