How is my PC not good enough to handle YouTube shorts?

B0bbyEwing

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82054034#Comment_82054034

Correct, that's exactly when I built it.

"Upgrade your PC" …… why? To play YouTube shorts? Or do you have another reason?

Farway

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82053855#Comment_82053855

Better still, it stops TY ads at same time

B0bbyEwing

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82055601#Comment_82055601

Not keen on the browser but I may look at it just for that alone.

FWIW I don't get ads with YT on any device & haven't done for some time now.

I have an extension to block them within FireFox.

On the Nvidia Shield I use an app which not only blocks them but also skips when a YouTuber is waffling about some paid promotion thing they're doing.

And on my Android phone I use another app which bypasses ads if you're happy with the few seconds it takes to load a video. The only one with the Android phone is if I search for info & there's a YT video to see how to do something for example, it opens within YT itself & not the ad blocking app. THEN I get hit with ads. Maybe there's a way to have it auto-open links through the other app, I don't know.

JSmithy45AD

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82054844#Comment_82054844

You were complaining it couldn't play Youtube or FB videos so their suggestion (and mine earlier) was so that you could. Upgrading a PC doesn't mean replacing the entire thing, you can just replace the video card.

Secondhand options would be :-

NVIDIA GT 1030 2GB GDDR5 (not the GDDR4 version) at circa £40 (used) VP9 capable and 4K @ 60Hz

AMD Radeon RX 550 4GB at circa £50 (used)VP9 capable and 4K @ 60Hz

Or a brand new Intel Arc A310 4GB at circa £120+ (new) VP9 & AV1 capable and and 8K @ 60Hz

Note that all of the above are powered from the slot itself, so no extra cables from the PSU needed.

Neil_Jones

The argument about the graphics card not coping may hold true for HD/4k content.

If you drop the resolution on YouTube down to anything below 720p, does it play happily then? You can change this with the cog bottom right of any video.

B0bbyEwing

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82055931#Comment_82055931

Ah I'm with you now.

That Nvidia one you mention, it sounds familiar. Does it allow GPU encoding/transcoding (whatever the coding term is) with Handbrake?

Some years ago when I was running .mkv files through Handbrake to shrink them someone on another forum suggested I bought a cheap 2nd hand GPU as it could take the load off the CPU if I remember right. I remember it being 2GB vs my 1GB.

Whatever model it was they recommended, I found one & bought it but when it arrived the back plate was bent to hell so I sent it back & just stayed with the one that's always been in there.

This was all because Handbrake was taking like 8 hours to run 1 blu ray (that'd been ripped by makemkv)