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For some reason, G+ hangouts eat a lot more CPU for me than Skype does.

• rikkus 12y ago
  Lack of GPU acceleration of Flash?
  • aroch 12y ago
    I'm more inclined to think lack of HW-decoding for VP8/9 + Google's "VideoandTalk" plugin on OSX is a piece of crap.
  • coherentpony 12y ago
    Is it Flash? I thought it was just webkit's video rendering.
  • tambourine_man 12y ago
    It uses WebRTC and the video tag AFAIK
    • kansface 12y ago
      Not yet- even on chrome webrtc isn't close to the polish/stability/feature set of the plugin.
  • ars 12y ago
    It's not flash, it's a custom plugin.
  • mcescalante 12y ago
    I dunno, but it always makes me wonder if they test this on any consumer type machines and if their fans are going as fast as mine...
• stock_toaster 12y ago
  Same here. Hangouts always seems to turn my aging laptop into a fireball.