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YouTube full screen playback is choppy
When YouTube video playback is in full screen mode and the video controls are on the screen the video playback is not at all reliable. The framerates go through the floor and the video playback gets ...
confirmed, seems that Hardware Acceleration is not working properly in comparison with IE11 or Edge.
GurpreetV
Microsoft
MicrosoftDeletedIn IE11/ Edge, YouTube playback would use VP9 only if hardware decoding was enabled or H264 (with hardware decoding benefits).
In new Edge based of chromium, the chromium model is followed where VP9 is used even if hardware decoding is not enabled.
Nonetheless playback quality should not be worse and we are trying to get additional info to debug this problem further.
