YouTube window to fullscreen is REALLY slow

Serpher

In comparison to Firefox, getting a video from window to fullscreen is really choppy and sluggish. It takes like 5 seconds and it takes like 10% of CPU time to do this. What gives??
I made new profile, imported my account and it still happens.

mib2berlin

@serpher
Hi, it takes about one second in Firefox, Edge and Vivaldi on my system but Vivaldi need two steps.
Five seconds seams really slow, could be a GPU/driver Vivaldi issue.
Please add the Vivaldi, OS version and your system specs.
May you can check with a guest profile, it exclude all settings and extensions.

https://help.vivaldi.com/article/guest-view/

Cheers, mib

Serpher

5.1.2567.49 (Stable channel) (64-bit)
Windows 10 x64 21H2
32 GB DDR4 RAM
Intel i7 6700
Nvidia 1080Ti, driver 460.89

In comparison Firefox on my system takes about half a second to go to fullsceen.
I think there's something wrong with my profile, but I removed it, synchronized it back up from cloud, but it still happening. No clear cache helped.

asab

@serpher

after you enable hardware acceleration within vivaldi,
try enabling this as well:
vivaldi://flags/#ignore-gpu-blocklist

it helped on my system! (RTX 3080, Ryzen 3600)

Psych0B

@Serpher I had issues (only with Vivaldi) playing videos when I had background fps limited in the Nvidia control panel. Check to make sure it's disabled.

pafflick

@serpher I tried comparing YouTube's performance in Edge and Vivaldi on my PC and haven't noticed any differences. We've had several reports from users about performance issues that turned out to be a problem with their GPU drivers*, so you could start with the suggestions presented above in order to investigate this issue further. For more information, please refer to the Troubleshooting issues guide.

*Recent, related examples:

Priest72

Kind of strange i don't experience such an issue and my computer is over ten years old which is precisely where i "would" expect a problem.

Driver issue no doubt for those experiencing such calamities.

element4l

I am not at all surprised to see this issue here today. Fullscreening youtube videos in vivaldi has always been a total nightmare for me. It can take up to 30+ seconds for it to go through the process of blacking out the page, risizing the video (twice?) and making it full screen. It's actually so slow I don't even bother doing it half the time. I don't have this issue in chrome, firefox, or edge. I had the latest GPU drivers for my card and actually recently reverted to my stock drivers (the new ones were giving me issues) but the problem is the exact same, it never went away, so I don't think it's related.

Serpher

@asab Didn't work but thanks
@Psych0B I have this turned off.
@element4l I have not updated my gpu drivers just to avoid issues. Other browsers are working fine.

@pafflick What thing in user profile could interfere in youtube? I'm clearing cache regularly.

element4l

@serpher Oh I never got this working, to be clear. @pafflick says it's a driver issue, but why would it be working fine in other browsers? Why would someone have to mess around with their drivers to get... a fullscreen function working properly? That doesn't make much sense. My computer is ten years old too but it runs Crisis 2 at full settings... and plenty of other games at high resolution/framerate... but it can't fullscreen a simple youtube video 0_o...? Besides, I've messed with my GPU drivers quite a bit and have not found any resolution to this godawful problem.

guigirl

For context, my Snappie 5.2.2581.4 in Linux also suffers this problem. Older versions did not. Furthermore, it is not only YT videos; it also happens for other sites' videos, eg, Odysee [albeit YT seems a bit worse]. During the ~1 - 2 seconds it seems to take for the change, visual artefacts are generated which only reconstitute themselves into the correct image once the change is finished. The change back to the normal view is a bit quicker, but still not instant nor smooth. As i said, older versions afaik did not do this for me.

I know this is a windoze thread, but i chose to post here to indicate the problem is wider than only windoze.

pafflick

@serpher said in YouTube window to fullscreen is REALLY slow:

What thing in user profile could interfere in youtube?

Could be a corrupted file (due to a system failure, browser downgrading, etc.). You can always use a clean profile to see if it's actually the case.

pafflick

@element4l said in YouTube window to fullscreen is REALLY slow:

says it's a driver issue

I said it was the case for most of the users who reported the problem.

@element4l said in YouTube window to fullscreen is REALLY slow:

why would it be working fine in other browsers?

It could be the case that the driver software (and other) developers test their software with the most popular browsers only. It's often the case with Vivaldi being reported as an unrecognized program by some antiviruses.

@element4l said in YouTube window to fullscreen is REALLY slow:

Why would someone have to mess around with their drivers to get... a fullscreen function working properly?

That's just how the software world works - with so many hardware options, devices and operating systems, there are always gonna be some incompatibility issues.

@element4l said in YouTube window to fullscreen is REALLY slow:

It can take up to 30+ seconds for it to go through the process of blacking out the page, risizing the video (twice?) and making it full screen.

I just tested it on a short, 22-seconds long video, and I was able to switch to full screen and back 32 times while it played. Tested in Vivaldi Snapshot 5.2.2581.4 (64-bit on Windows 10 ver. 21H2).

guigirl

@pafflick said in YouTube window to fullscreen is REALLY slow:

tested it on a short, 22-seconds long video, and I was able to switch

I just tested that in my [Linux] Default, Guest, & Virgin profiles. They all behaved as i posted before. Fwiw.

pafflick

@guigirl it's hard to compare Windows & Linux in this regard, as they both can use different codecs. I'm suffering some significant lags when playing videos in Vivaldi on my tablet for example, but it's an old, low-specs device - and it's lagging in basically everything.
IIRC, Snapshots on Linux used some different codecs than Stable - but I don't remember where I read that & I'm not sure if it were about all Snapshots or just the internal builds. Not sure if it's related.

element4l

@pafflick I'm sorry but this is not a case of graphics card makers not testing Vivaldi, this is a case of Vivaldi doing something wrong. Every single other browser works fine. What is Vivaldi doing that makes it so terrible in this regard? Stop blaming the graphics cards. That is the copout of the century. A normal user should not have to worry that their perfectly good graphics card and drivers--that work literally perfectly everywhere else and can play spectacular games--aren't up to speed for a full screen function (OF ALL THINGS) to work.

" just tested it on a short, 22-seconds long video, and I was able to switch to full screen and back 32 times while it played. Tested in Vivaldi Snapshot 5.2.2581.4 (64-bit on Windows 10 ver. 21H2)."

Wow woopdie doo thanks for the info boss, glad you're not affected. Problem SOLVED. /S

For the record, the links you provide (to the artifacting and driver crashing) are unrelated to this issue of slow fullscreening being abysmally slow for no good reason.

Pathduck

This is a problem specific only to YouTube, and if you search around a bit you will find that this affects a lot of users on different browsers.

On my (relatively old) system (Win10 x64, i7-4790K, GTX970) it behaves basically the same on all browsers. To reproduce just scroll a long way down on the page, the longer you scroll, the slower it becomes opening fullscreen. Firefox is probably the one handling it best, but it does lag a bit as well.

Vivaldi: https://ttm.sh/iUD.mp4
Chrome: https://ttm.sh/i4V.mp4
Brave : https://ttm.sh/i46.mp4
Firefox: https://ttm.sh/i4x.mp4
Opera: https://ttm.sh/i4-.mp4

Vivaldi with Tampermonkey script: https://ttm.sh/iUE.mp4

Script:
https://github.com/ZimbiX/youtube-fast-fullscreen-toggle
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youtube-fast-fullscreen-t/dggbkbndbcaknaeobfieifmdcncmpaba?hl=en-GB

pafflick

@element4l said in YouTube window to fullscreen is REALLY slow:

I'm sorry but this is not a case of graphics card makers not testing Vivaldi, this is a case of Vivaldi doing something wrong.

I didn't say it was always the case. I merely showed some examples where it was the case.

@element4l said in YouTube window to fullscreen is REALLY slow:

What is Vivaldi doing that makes it so terrible in this regard?

How did you establish it's actually Vivaldi doing something wrong? Did you test it on different computers? From my own experience, I can say that it could be anything - from a broken profile, a faulty extension to a 3rd-party software or a system error. But I tested Vivaldi on 3 different PCs so far, and it works fine on each of them.

@element4l said in YouTube window to fullscreen is REALLY slow:

Stop blaming the graphics cards.

I would have to start blaming them first. And I merely pointed out one of the possible causes. I don't know why you're so fixated about the GPU drivers since I mentioned them only once in this thread (apart from clarifying your statement about what I allegedly said).

It's true that entering full screen on YouTube is noticeably slow due to how the page is built (though it still takes only 0,5 seconds to full-screen a 4K video in Vivaldi here). But assuming that the browser is the main/only culprit without any comprehensive evidence or data is not going to help us identify the real issue. So far it seems to affect a very small % of users, therefore it has to be established what's causing it for them first.

smerugu28

@element4l - Agree with you. Even I am facing this issue on my computer. It not just on changing the screen size but also when you use web panels. It takes around 5 seconds to recognize the window changed and performs the activity of adjusting itself.

bdjones

I just tried changing the Privacy Settings/Trackers and Ad Blocking settings for YouTube from 'Block Trackers and Ads' to 'Block Trackers' and the speed of going to fullscreen for a YT video was much faster.