Question No way to make YouTube faster on my computer and browser?

[TonyMontana18]

I tired everything I switched to many browsers many operating systems, what's the solution? Buy a 10,000 dollars brand new computer to watch 480p quickest as I can like an airplane or I buy android tv or tablet instead? YouTube said that it works fast on IoT devices only they only support hd like 720p and above with fast connection, how come? If PCs have 20 inch screen atleast with fast specs? It should be fast all devices including computers not just IoT devices like tablets, apple tv, smartphones and etc!

 

[NightHawkRMX]

The motherboard is socket AM3 and has support all the way up to Phenom ii X6.

You might be surprised how little CPU is required to web browse smoothly. 4gb ram is fine too if you don't do much multitasking

I have done some testing prior and web browsing+1080p YouTube were perfectly fine on an Athlon II X3 450 (AM3)+8gb ram+SSD+gt740 for media decode. I would recommend something like an Athlon ii X4 for ≈$15 and would be sufficient to accomplish what you need.

As was mentioned above h.264 ify will help performance in media playback, however I have found that on really really low end systems like this it still won't be enough to make YouTube a good experience.

 

[TonyMontana18]

No, it doesn't matter, old or new, fast or slow, big or small, YouTube is slow because it's written on Python and Java like Quora, I just deleted Quora, installed kubuntu it's fastest os in the world and I'll use Facebook instead of YouTube, Facebook is faster because! Because I wasted 10 years of my life watching YouTube slowly on all my devices!

Honestly, a $100 refurbed office PC could probably do what they want.

I had one of those semprons, and it was painfully slow. I normally do not recommend spending money on such old rigs, but this isn't a huge expense, and would be a massive improvement, vs that old single core sempron.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/224757535330?hash=item345497d262:g:c6UAAOSwE8xhxiSY&LH_BIN=1

 

[TonyMontana18]

I merged your other Youtube thread in here, we do not need multiple threads discussing this topic.

Fine, but I'm not asking same question! Why u on my head? This question is solution request and other one is to know why it's slow!

 

[TonyMontana18]

Ah that's why, u tell them in the feedback request I told them many times same suggestion, I had enough of them, I deleted YouTube channel, I'll just use Facebook, I don't think so, because even in the past YouTube is so slow I used to have pentuim 4 all slow even in 420p it's slow, 360p was the fastest, I'll just watch YouTube on VLC player and on Facebook and the thread is ended, yh, because old CPU, but on Android it's faster only in the app not browser but somehow sometimes it glictes when u are in watch later playlist and full hd like 1080p and 720p!

I'm kind of surprised nobody has suggested using hardware acceleration in the browser, like VLC uses.

Back in the olden days of yore when your PC was new and dinosaurs roamed the earth, Youtube used MP4 based on H.263 and even considerably weaker PCs than yours like Pentium 4 or Pentium M could play 1080p videos in software! However as Youtube began to host far more videos they went to more highly compressed H.264 to save on both the storage space and bandwidth required. Obviously this required much more CPU power to decode. Even worse is the even more compressed later H.265 or VP9 (which Youtube chose because they didn't want to pay the licensing fees for H.265)

See, Youtube today is mostly VP9 but has increasingly over the past year been switching over to AV1 (the former VP10 project, mostly on their 4k+ videos). Your Kepler GPU is too old to hardware accelerate either of those, so your poor CPU has to decode them entirely in software

However you are in luck because your GT710 does support H.264 hardware assist, which is what VLC is using. All you have to do is tell Youtube to only send over videos in H.264 format. The most straightforward way to do that is to install the H264ify plugin/extension in Chrome or Firefox, so if the video is available in that format it will be sent to your browser in H.264 to greatly improve performance and reduce the load on your CPU.

 

[Karadjgne]

Want to know why so slow? Easy answer is YouTube got faster and your pc didn't. YouTubers are using higher compression, higher bitrate, higher megapixel cameras and newer codecs that either your pc doesn't fully support or takes longer to decompress or graphically takes longer to buffer. You are Wayyyy behind the times.

Basically your pc is an old man who might have been decent in his prime, but is trying desperately to try and keep up with professional athletes in a foot race.

Your pc is so old the parts cannot be upgraded to newer. Replacing the cpu with newer means you must have a matching socket motherboard and matching socket ram. We are on DDR5 now, it does not physically fit in your board, neither does DDR4 or even DDR3.

Upgrade All 3 components, or live with slow youtube. No other real value options.

 

[TonyMontana18]

Honestly, a $100 refurbed office PC could probably do what they want.

I had one of those semprons, and it was painfully slow. I normally do not recommend spending money on such old rigs, but this isn't a huge expense, and would be a massive improvement, vs that old single core sempron.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/224757535330?hash=item345497d262:g:c6UAAOSwE8xhxiSY&LH_BIN=1

Ah, that's why, I don't think

The motherboard is socket AM3 and has support all the way up to Phenom ii X6.

You might be surprised how little CPU is required to web browse smoothly. 4gb ram is fine too if you don't do much multitasking

I have done some testing prior and web browsing+1080p YouTube were perfectly fine on an Athlon II X3 450 (AM3)+8gb ram+SSD+gt740 for media decode. I would recommend something like an Athlon ii X4 for ≈$15 and would be sufficient to accomplish what you need.

As was mentioned above h.264 ify will help performance in media playback, however I have found that on really really low end systems like this it still won't be enough to make YouTube a good experience.

No, it doesn't matter, that h.264 is the trouble, it only plays fast on VLC player cuz it's in VLC player as logain said and even if i installed h.264 on my browser, it's still slow, because YouTube is WRRITEN and based on Python and Java, I'll just watch it without account, I deleted already yesterday and I'll use Facebook instead it's hunderd times faster than YouTube and that's it!

 

[SkyNetRising]

Ah, that's why, I don't think

You have Apple TV. Right?
Use it to watch youtube. It's way more powerful than that 12 years old pc of yours.

And stop this bickering. You were presented with plenty of solutions.
Your pc is garbage, incapable of modern internet requirements. Time to accept that.

 

[worstalentscout]

More like ultra low end, when it was new.

i had an even lower pc than that............AMD Athlon single-core @1.7Ghz (integrated graphics)...........1GB DDR-3 RAM (upgraded to 3GB later)...............upgraded to SSD later on............Win7-32bit 🤣

 

[joan16v]

You can try to disable Hardware Acceleration in your browser.

 

[NightHawkRMX]

Ah, that's why, I don't think

No, it doesn't matter, that h.264 is the trouble, it only plays fast on VLC player cuz it's in VLC player as logain said and even if i installed h.264 on my browser, it's still slow, because YouTube is WRRITEN and based on Python and Java, I'll just watch it without account, I deleted already yesterday and I'll use Facebook instead it's hunderd times faster than YouTube and that's it!

You don't understand correctly. The reason it is slow is because your CPU is being fully utilized. Upgrading the CPU would help.

 

[ex_bubblehead]

Given that the OP is simply in a mood to argue, gritch & complain, and doesn't really want any of the good solutions that have been offered, I'm going to close this thread before the OP devolves it any further.

 

[Rogue Leader]

Fine, but I'm not asking same question! Why u on my head? This question is solution request and other one is to know why it's slow!

I'm not on your head, my job is to keep the forum tidy, our rules say don't make multiple topics on basically the same thing. Thats it, period.