Why does YouTube freeze in Chromium on Linux?

Question

linux

Hello dear. The machine is running openSUSE 15.2 and has the Chromium browser installed. This is not the first time I notice such a pattern - some time after installing the OS, playing YouTube videos in the Chromium browser starts to cause discomfort, friezes appear at intervals of 3-4 seconds, the laptop starts to boil, the temperature jumps to heaven, at this moment the system monitor all 4 threads are 80-100% load. Content is played in 720p quality, although at 480p the situation is about the same. This phenomenon is not typical for Firefox and other browsers, only Chromium . For comparison, in Mozilla, when playing 1080p and a dozen more tabs, the load does not exceed 50%, while the laptop is quiet, barely increasing the rotation of the cooler.

The situation was exactly the same on openSUSE Tumbleweed with a Plasma environment and Ubuntu 16.04 Unity. The difference is only in the time after installing the browser. At first everything works as expected, but after about 2 weeks on ubuntu and 4-5 days in SUSE it starts to freeze. I can't understand what is causing this problem, because there are no changes among the components of the system. I don’t like updating systems, I often break something like that. I install all the necessary software in 1 sitting immediately after installation, often using a self-written under-script.

Also, the situation does not manifest itself in systems of the Windows family, but this laptop is "ordered" to go there because of crooked firewood, therefore I do not use them. On Mac OS the local Intel HD 4000 graphics won't start and I can't patch to the DSDT path.

The config of the laptop itself is Toshiba Tecra R940, intel Core i5 3320m, 10Gb RAM, GoodRAM SSD, Intel HD 4000. It's not new, but it feels great at home, but here is such a "bad luck". In which direction to dig? I can’t leave the “lame”, everything is there.

PS - Of the browser extensions, only adblock.
PSS - In Youtube statistics in a video for 10,000 frames ~ 800 passes.

Answer 1

Take a look at the chrome://gpu tab and see how the videos are decorated. Perhaps vaapi was disabled in your browser when compiling, or it was blacklisted with your gpu, or youtube gives chrome vp8-9, which is not supported by your gpu, but fox h264.