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> The current lines of Mac spin up to near-screaming, even despite those special, so-quiet fans, when one watches a video Ugh, no they don't. Video decoding i
by 4ad 10y ago
> The current lines of Mac spin up to near-screaming, even despite those special, so-quiet fans, when one watches a video
Ugh, no they don't.
Video decoding is CPU intensive in Chrome and VLC. Video decoding in Safari and QuickTime uses negligible CPU resources. This difference is so striking that I abandoned Chrome. I use Safari, which I don't like, but 100% vs. 2% CPU usage it's so worth it.
Mpv has pretty good performance too, sometimes approaching QuickTime.
- eropple 10y agoThat's a lot of electrons perturbed for "yes, they do, unless you make your life worse to compensate." There was a time when that wasn't the calculus for operating a Mac.
- 4ad 10y ago???
- eropple 10y agoYou yourself say that Safari is a worse experience. Having to choose between "using a worse experience" and "having my laptop try to self-immolate" is not, historically, a choice Apple foists on its users. (Yes, Chrome is third-party. Doesn't matter. Linux rightly gets flak when devices don't work because of third-party manufacturers, OS X can get flak when videos make Apple hardware conflagrant.)
- bartvk 10y agoYeah, it's a strange situation. No idea why you're downmodded, but indeed YouTube serves nice content to Safari that can be decoded efficiently (hardware accelerated).