YouTube playback has never been great with my Pi3, but it's gotten even worse after this evening's update to the OS.
The load meter hovers around 50-75% with no clear correlation between playback stalls and load. The playback progress bar (red) lags well behind the download (grey) progress bar, so I don't think it's a connection issue.
Thanks for reading, and any ideas for a fix....
bob prohaska
Can't help, as I don't have a 3 yet, and so far have failed to play *any* video on my 1B, but I'm curious as to what you are actually trying to play Youtube with? Haven't got close to that (though YT audio works).
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I've been using chromium. The odd thing is that when first set up youtube videos played decently, at least for a while (days). Prolonged uptime led to thing slowing down, but that seems true of browsers on Mac OSX too, so I figured it was a memory leak in browsers or something of the sort.
A week or so ago I downloaded the very latest Chrmomium: Version 51.0.2704.91 Built on Ubuntu 14.04, running on Raspbian 8.0
and things got worse. A few days later I noticed some sort of update to Wayland and installed that, hoping it would help. No luck whatever. Even playing an audio-only youtube track causes
25-30% cpu load. Moving images, even a slideshow, push the loading up over 60% at least intermittently. Far as I can tell there's no option to set a gpu memory allocation other than default, at least in the Raspbian verision (8.0) I'm using now.It's baffling and frustrating, especially in light of the at-least-usable performance initially. Now videos are simply unwatchable.
If anybody reading this has an idea I'd really like to hear it.
Thanks for reading,
bob prohaska
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