#HOW TO USE 4K VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE MOVIE#
#HOW TO USE 4K VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE SOFTWARE#
#HOW TO USE 4K VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE PC#

4K video is nice, but sitting right in front of a display is a bit overkill if it is too expensive. Your GPU can help if your browser or app has hardware acceleration, but keep in mind it's a CPU intensive task.'Īctually, the GPU is the game changer. 'Online video decoding is handled mostly by your CPU, so it's the CPU the one that must be powerful. which means, the video is completely fluid most of the time but it lags and freezes in demanding parts.Ĭonclusion: not really capable of doing it, my laptop really lags at minute 3:00 and 4:40.

#HOW TO USE 4K VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE MOVIE#

I'd say a fail, you don't want to watch a movie with some scenes frozen and laggy, do you?įrames dropped at 4K 60fps: about 1500 during the whole video That means that your hardware might handle the video OK (0 frames dropped) but when a demanding scene comes, it will freeze and start to drop frames. Not all parts of the video are equal: the most demanding scenes are around 3:00 and around 4:40. If just 4-10 frames dropped, it is OK, but if you get like 100, 200 or 400 frames dropped, your hardware can't really handle it. If your hardware can handle 4K 60fps like a champion, you will see a 0 value over there during the whole video. The second line Viewport/frames tells you if any frame was dropped, that means, if your hardware couldn't handle the video anymore and started to drop frames. Right-click on the video and click 'stats for nerds'Ĥ. Open Chrome or Firefox, and go to this 4K 60fps video:ģ. So, when you post the results, you must tell us what resolution you are working with in Windows settings.ġ. If you are using a 4K monitor and Windows is set to 4K resolution, your hardware will have to work harder.

Your screen resolution also affects the performance.

#HOW TO USE 4K VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE SOFTWARE#

We don't want to test this under old software or browser.

Latest version of Chrome (version 77) or Firefox (version 69).

#HOW TO USE 4K VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE PC#

if your PC is in poor condition, that could be the reason why it's not capable of playing back fluently the videos.ģ. A clean PC without malware or bloat ware: no apps consuming resources, no virus, malware crap, etc. Internet Speed: at least 50Mbps, if you have low internet speed the video could be freezing because your speed, not your hardware.Ģ. What you are supposed to have before the test:ġ. Your GPU can help if your browser or app has hardware acceleration, but keep in mind it's a CPU intensive task. Online video decoding is handled mostly by your CPU, so it's the CPU the one that must be powerful. Sure, YouTube might end up adding 8K resolution in a few years, but, in my opinion, that's simply overkill. And I believe it's going to be that way for a while (many years). Good question, same reason: it looks like 4K 60fps is the most demanding video quality you can ask for today, without going overkill. OK, 4K is the 'future standard', but then, why the 60fps? Today, in 2019, a FullHD resolution is good enough to really enjoy a very high quality video, but the 4K resolution has been around for a while, and to make a PC 'future proof', I think it's better to have something that can handle 4K resolutions easily. Hi, a lot of people ask what are the minimum requirements to handle 4K 60fps video playback, specially in YouTube and other online media sources, to check if their PC is good enough for a Home Theater PC (HTPC), or if it will instead lag and freeze.

How to use 4k videos on youtube