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Youtube 60fps videos are choppy in fullscreen

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mickey
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Playing 60fps video on Youtube is choppy and slow in fullscreen. This has never happened to me before on any other browser. I have tried an H264-forcing extension, changing about:config, and updating my graphics drivers, but nothing has fixed the problem. I also opened a test video on a fresh install of Chrome and it worked perfectly. What's the deal?

Playing 60fps video on Youtube is choppy and slow in fullscreen. This has never happened to me before on any other browser. I have tried an H264-forcing extension, changing about:config, and updating my graphics drivers, but nothing has fixed the problem. I also opened a test video on a fresh install of Chrome and it worked perfectly. What's the deal?

Chosen solution

changing about:config

Changing what? Only the suggested "YouTube is choppy" setting?

Have you tried disabling hardware acceleration in Preferences → Performance? (Un-tick the Use recommended performance settings to see this.)

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user104147805413306348376805769878442569366
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Hi mickey, Have you tried the solution in this thread:

YouTube is choppy https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1268819

mickey
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RobertJ said

Hi mickey, Have you tried the solution in this thread: YouTube is choppy https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1268819

Yes, I tried that and it didn't change anything.

crankygoat
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Chosen Solution

changing about:config

Changing what? Only the suggested "YouTube is choppy" setting?

Have you tried disabling hardware acceleration in Preferences → Performance? (Un-tick the Use recommended performance settings to see this.)

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user104147805413306348376805769878442569366
user104147805413306348376805769878442569366
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Also, when you tried the H264-forcing extension, did you disable the Cisco plug-in and restart Firefox?

mickey
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crankygoat said

changing about:config

Changing what? Only the suggested "YouTube is choppy" setting?

Have you tried disabling hardware acceleration in Preferences → Performance? (Un-tick the Use recommended performance settings to see this.)

Changing about:config was referencing the media-capabilities.enabled fix which didn't work for me. However, I just disabled hardware acceleration and it has fixed my problem for the most part. Thank you.

crankygoat
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Sweet! Glad you have your un-choppy video back!