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Is it just me, or does the HTML5 player under Chrome (which means VP9) seem to use far more CPU than Flash (which means fully hardware accelerated H.264 when fullscreen)? Any thoughts on getting around this? IE11 uses H.264 and HTML5 if forced away from Flash, but resolutions are limited (not to mention that the HTML5 player is dog slow at changing video resolutions for me). Firefox seems to not allow HTML5 at all on certain videos, like VEVO ones (monetized, so previously no HTML5 at all).

It's not only you. Chrome's playback of streaming videos is a **** mess. Its HTML5 player cannot provide a proper GPU acceleration on some systems (for example, like my current laptop with Intel Iris 5100 GPU and latest Intel's drivers for it), resulting in high CPU usage (which is annoying on laptops due to noticeable increase in case warmth and fan speed), regardless of Chrome's flags/settings. Same goes for Chrome's own "PepperFlash" Flash player (which everyone should manually disable by default).

To get around this - either use different browser OR force YouTube's videos to use Flash (there are Chrome extensions which allow this). If you'll do that - don't forget to also disable Chrome's own "PepperFlash" player.

I stick to Flash on Windows 8.1/IE 11 - For some reason the HTML5 video's don't go full screen. They also don't appear to be GPU accelerated judging by the stuttering on Full HD playback and one single core of my CPU running flat out.

The HTML5 player under Chrome doesn't have proper GPU acceleration on my desktop (i5 750, 550ti) or my netbook (AMD E350, integrated Radeon 6310) - nothing that I've seen has VP9 hardware acceleration at the moment.

Chrome's PepperFlash player seems to give me more CPU use as well than the system one, so I also disable it.

HTML5 videos fullscreen fine for me though.