Re: Youtube drains CPU
Reply #2 –
@bluedragon77, if you are using flash player then I doubt that you can do anything about it.
Native media playback under Linux uses GStreamer (but not 1.x by default), perhaps you could make use of hardware acceleration but your instance is missing some plugin.
http://docs.gstreamer.com/display/GstSDK/Playback+tutorial+8%3A+Hardware-accelerated+video+decoding