8K youtube n Asus q525ua plays fine, can you play this smoothly too?

sdowney717 · 07 Feb 2021

My Asus 2 in 1 notebook plays this 8k fine, although the cpu fan speeds up
Intel UHD 620 graphics with core I7-8550U and 16gb ram and NVME SSD 500gb WDC drive
New York in 8K ULTRA HD - Capital of Earth (60FPS) - YouTube

Actually it surprised me, not much point to it as the screen is not 8K.
If I plugged an 8K HDTV into the HDMI port, then it would be 8K on the HDTV screen.

Edwin · 07 Feb 2021

Not bad. I get a bit of stuttering at 8K on full screen; 4K is okay on 4K monitor...

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sdowney717 · 07 Feb 2021

I am interested in if a FX6300 CPU can play 4K. And what video card would it take?
How about a Phenom B95 AMD cpu?

So far it seems older Intel boards do HD better than older AMD boards.

The FX6300 cpu board can play 1440p fine, but 4K halts. I have it paired with a GTX260 nvidia (old card)

Callender · 07 Feb 2021

Plays just fine in this low end machine:

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Freetube portable proxied via invidious:

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Open in Potplayer with MadVR (Potplayer opened via browser extension)

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sdowney717 · 07 Feb 2021

Callender said:

Plays just fine in this low end machine:

Freetube portable proxied via invidious:

Open in Potplayer with MadVR (Potplayer opened via browser extension)

I see you have UHD 600 graphics chip, I have the 620.
did you click gear and select the 8K?

Callender · 07 Feb 2021

sdowney717 said:

I see you have UHD 600 graphics chip, I have the 620.
did you click gear and select the 8K?

Actually I didn't so playback quality was auto selected.

I visited youtube just now and it does struggle to play 8K via a browser.

Typically I don't usually visit youtube to play videos and instead stream them using other apps.

Edwin · 07 Feb 2021

Firefox won't handle the 8K at all! Chrome does a little better.

Callender · 07 Feb 2021

FYI: If I open the URL to stream via potplayer this is the highest setting that I can use without having to restart the graphics card.

Win+Ctrl+Shift+B

@Edwin

Thanks. I don't have Chrome so I will try Vivaldi and see what happens.

Edwin · 07 Feb 2021

Hehe..., Firefox drops almost all frames in 8K!
Audio's great though!

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Callender · 07 Feb 2021

So this is the highest setting that I can use without issues in Vivaldi (Chromium)

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Personally I got fed up with all the distractions on youtube so tend to use other methods. Typically freetube (Portable app) proxied via invidious. Although you could just use invidious without the app.

documentation/Invidious-Instances.md at master . iv-org/documentation . GitHub

Then I only get two options.