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I don't understand why hangouts has to use so much CPU. I have a top of the line, brand new laptop, and using hangouts never fails to heat it up and get the fan
by macNchz 12y ago
I don't understand why hangouts has to use so much CPU. I have a top of the line, brand new laptop, and using hangouts never fails to heat it up and get the fans going.
In contrast, a multi-way video chat on http://appear.in http://appear.in has much more stable audio and video quality, somehow doesn't require half of my CPU, and doesn't even require a plugin.
My team is distributed, and we use hangouts every day, so this has not been a one-time experience, and it has been like this for years at this point.
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- dharma1 12y agoPerhaps this is why: http://www.androidcentral.com/google-moves-hangouts-vp8-offer-720p-hd-video http://www.androidcentral.com/google-moves-hangouts-vp8-offe... Instead of hardware accelerated h264 (almost all chipsets have hardware decoding/encoding of h264), they use their own VP8/9 - which is decoding/encoding on CPU Also the reason why Google Glass can't do Hangouts - not powerful enough for software encoding. They should just use h264.