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0 pointsmcescalante12y ago0 comments

For some reason, G+ hangouts eat a lot more CPU for me than Skype does.

0 pointsmcescalante12y ago0 comments

For some reason, G+ hangouts eat a lot more CPU for me than Skype does.

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rikkus12y ago· 6 in thread

Lack of GPU acceleration of Flash?

It uses WebRTC and the video tag AFAIK

Not yet- even on chrome webrtc isn't close to the polish/stability/feature set of the plugin.

ars12y ago

It's not flash, it's a custom plugin.

Is it Flash? I thought it was just webkit's video rendering.

I dunno, but it always makes me wonder if they test this on any consumer type machines and if their fans are going as fast as mine...

aroch12y ago

I'm more inclined to think lack of HW-decoding for VP8/9 + Google's "VideoandTalk" plugin on OSX is a piece of crap.

Same here. Hangouts always seems to turn my aging laptop into a fireball.

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