This has been a problem since we had to install Chrome to watch our Colbert and have noticed a High CPU usage happening that kept crashing chrome...
The CPU would constantly be at 100% which is not good for your CPU, but we didn't care, because we needed our Colbert :-D...
sidenote: The reason we loaded chrome was to remove Adobe Flash due to all the zero day exploits they were experiencing lately...
Well we got motivated and did some research on the issue and found some good links that didn't solve the Problem...
The first one we found was for YouTube videos that we found that referenced vp8/9, no this is not a Vape pen :-D...
The vp stands for Video Compression and is used to compress videos to prevent long buffer times and less data used to provide a higher quality for your video...
Chromium, Chrome, Firefox and Opera are the only browsers that support vp9 and soon to be released will be vp10...
From what we read people are having issues with 4k and not so much 1080p, but where it gets interesting is that Video Cards don't yet support vp9...
Ironically enough, Internet Explorer is much better at decoding videos than chrome and is much smoother and w/out a High CPU usage...
There is a workaround in Chrome if you add h264/5 plugin to your Chrome browser by opening extensions under more tools or just typing chrome://extensions/ in your URL, then type h264/5 in your search field and choose add to chrome, that's it...
However, this didn't fix our issue, we just thought you might so we added it just for S/G's...
The problem we had was a Flash issue that is built into Chrome by default called pepflashplayer.dll and is found under plugins, just type chrome://plugins in your URL...
Once there click on the + sign in the top right corner to expand the details view and scroll down to Shockwave Flash and choose disable...
Now we don't have video and Chrome wants to install Adobe Flash in order to run, so we loaded Adobe Flash which we uninstalled because of the vulnerabilities and found out that it didn't run any better...
So then we Disabled DirectWrite, Disabled accelerated 2D canvas, Disabled hardware-accelerated video decode under chrome://flags and it didn't run any better...
We then went to settings and unchecked User Hardware acceleration when available under advanced settings and that didn't work...
So then we reset all settings restored factory settings and that didn't improve the CPU usage and didn't fix our problem with High CPU usage in Chrome...
sidenote: Yes we disabled our Malware Programs as well...
So we thought...and had an ah-haa moment and found the solution to the High CPU problem in Chrome while watching videos...
What we did was reinstalled flash from Adobe opened up Internet Explorer 11 and watched our video and discovered that the problem was Chrome :-D CPU Usage in IE...10%, CPU Usage in Chrome 75-100%...
We discovered that Chrome Sucks while watching Videos from any source while IE was smooth and never crashed...
We still have Chrome loaded on our system for faster browsing on websites because Chrome does browse faster than IE on certain websites...
It's also nice to have two browsers when you use multiple screens for researching so at least Chrome has some use for us...
Remember, all players have to play nowadays regardless if they suck, because it's not whether you win or lose anymore, it's about participation and participation awards, so Google here is your participation award :-D
THANKS MOM :-P
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