Since I updated Chrome a month or so ago I have noticed videos in both YouTube and Odysee randomly stopping during playback.
Has anyone else noticed this?
Thanks,
Has anyone else noticed this?
Thanks,
Anyone noticed Videos stopping in Chrome?
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I haven't noticed anything specific, but I have seen this a few times. It may be network congestion. I have noticed a seeming increase in internet glitches on zoom conferences and such. I've also noticed that streaming XFinity through my TorGuard VPN pushes my dual core Windows 7 laptop to nearly 100% CPU. YouTube, by default, will gravitate to higher frame rate more CPU intensive codecs as I understand it. You can try this H264ify extension to force it to run at 30 FPS and prefer h.264 codecs. I keep it on all the time and it seems to help. I don't know about Odysee. You can also click the gear on YouTube and set the resolution to something below 1080p, such as 720p or 480p.
chrome.google.com
Standard Security Now Diclaimer, do your homework before installing extensions. They can be malicious, although this has a good reputation and many users. Extensions can monitor and alter the web pages you go to.
Load up task manager or resource manager in a corner of your screen and see if you're running out of physical memory or if the CPU is always pegged close to 100%. If you don't have too many Chrome tabs open, you could try bumping the execution priority to above normal for Chrome threads. I would not go higher than that as it can destabilize the system. All this assumes you're running Windows. If you're on a Mac or Linux, similar concepts may apply but I don't know details.
Hope this helps.
May your bits be stable and your interfaces be fast.
Ron
h264ify - Chrome Web Store
Makes YouTube stream H.264 videos instead of VP8/VP9 videos
chrome.google.com
Standard Security Now Diclaimer, do your homework before installing extensions. They can be malicious, although this has a good reputation and many users. Extensions can monitor and alter the web pages you go to.
Load up task manager or resource manager in a corner of your screen and see if you're running out of physical memory or if the CPU is always pegged close to 100%. If you don't have too many Chrome tabs open, you could try bumping the execution priority to above normal for Chrome threads. I would not go higher than that as it can destabilize the system. All this assumes you're running Windows. If you're on a Mac or Linux, similar concepts may apply but I don't know details.
Hope this helps.
May your bits be stable and your interfaces be fast.
Ron
Thanks I'll try it.I haven't noticed anything specific, but I have seen this a few times. It may be network congestion. I have noticed a seeming increase in internet glitches on zoom conferences and such. I've also noticed that streaming XFinity through my TorGuard VPN pushes my dual core Windows 7 laptop to nearly 100% CPU. YouTube, by default, will gravitate to higher frame rate more CPU intensive codecs as I understand it. You can try this H264ify extension to force it to run at 30 FPS and prefer h.264 codecs. I keep it on all the time and it seems to help. I don't know about Odysee. You can also click the gear on YouTube and set the resolution to something below 1080p, such as 720p or 480p.
h264ify - Chrome Web Store
Makes YouTube stream H.264 videos instead of VP8/VP9 videos
Standard Security Now Diclaimer, do your homework before installing extensions. They can be malicious, although this has a good reputation and many users. Extensions can monitor and alter the web pages you go to.
Load up task manager or resource manager in a corner of your screen and see if you're running out of physical memory or if the CPU is always pegged close to 100%. If you don't have too many Chrome tabs open, you could try bumping the execution priority to above normal for Chrome threads. I would not go higher than that as it can destabilize the system. All this assumes you're running Windows. If you're on a Mac or Linux, similar concepts may apply but I don't know details.
Hope this helps.
May your bits be stable and your interfaces be fast.
Any chance you are using a Vizio monitor or TV for viewing?
After upgrading our Vizio to the latest firmware around two months ago, this started happening when watching streaming video from a win10 computer using HDMI... monitor would "turn off" for a couple of seconds and then back on... (an audible "click" can be heard)
Paying attention showed that this always happened about an hour after starting streaming.
Searching online showed that many others had this same problem (plus a couple of other glitches) and that vizio had neither responded to anyone on the vizio forum nor updated the firmware.
Had nothing to do with Chrome since we use FireFox for all streaming
Hope this info is helpful,
Beverly Howard
After upgrading our Vizio to the latest firmware around two months ago, this started happening when watching streaming video from a win10 computer using HDMI... monitor would "turn off" for a couple of seconds and then back on... (an audible "click" can be heard)
Paying attention showed that this always happened about an hour after starting streaming.
Searching online showed that many others had this same problem (plus a couple of other glitches) and that vizio had neither responded to anyone on the vizio forum nor updated the firmware.
Had nothing to do with Chrome since we use FireFox for all streaming
Hope this info is helpful,
Beverly Howard
I have a Roku, Vizio TV, Vizio sound bar. About once a day either sound level on the bar goes to 0, or display is lost, comes back and sound is gone. Power off and all returns. The status bar at the top of display shows. I think, at least when the display goes off it is due to a handshake issue. I have a Denon reciever that I am going to set up and see if the issue goes away.
Well my wife has been complaining about this exact thing now for a couple months and we only use Chrome.
I told her to let me know when it did it and to not do anything so that I could look.
Sure enough the video had stopped and the play button was there and it was not buffering, hit play and it just takes off again.
It does this to her at least three times every 30 minutes and she is mostly on Bitchute.com.
Then only last week my Chrome browser started doing it.
Only other thing on Spectrum is I loose wireless at least every week now and have to log in to the router and reboot the system and then everything is good again and doesn't always affect the hardwire until four days ago.
Not sure what to think.
UPDATE: We only use ViewSonic monitors.
I told her to let me know when it did it and to not do anything so that I could look.
Sure enough the video had stopped and the play button was there and it was not buffering, hit play and it just takes off again.
It does this to her at least three times every 30 minutes and she is mostly on Bitchute.com.
Then only last week my Chrome browser started doing it.
Only other thing on Spectrum is I loose wireless at least every week now and have to log in to the router and reboot the system and then everything is good again and doesn't always affect the hardwire until four days ago.
Not sure what to think.
UPDATE: We only use ViewSonic monitors.
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So many moons ago (okay like two years ago) I used to have a similar experience. I haven't had it recently (with Chrome) but then I don't use Chrome much. I use it to drive ChromeCast to watch Leo's videocasts live on my TV. At the time it was happening to me, the link between the ChromeCast and the computer appeared to be the issue. Getting a wired adapter (for $15US) for the Chromecast (then to play Stadia) really made a huge difference for me. If you're willing to spend the money for the adapter, AND you have the ability to wire in the Chromecast, this may result in a better experience for you as well.
Here's one
store.google.com
and the other
Here's one
Ethernet Adapter for Chromecast 3rd & 1st Gen - Google Store
Ethernet adapter for Chromecast lets you connect your Chromecast 3rd Generation, 1st Generation, and Audio directly to your router to create a fast and reliable connection for your Chromecast.
store.google.com
A new clue, using Process Explorer to watch Chrome during YouTube video playback revealed that one of the subprocesses is killed off when the video playback dies. In other words, setting up Process Explorer to watch only Chrome processes with the filter, one of them dies the Red death.
Anyone have a suggestion of what to look for next?
Anyone have a suggestion of what to look for next?
