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My setup is a Ryzen 2700x with an Nvidia 1070ti.

I have sufficient bandwidth (200Mbps) and the video loads really fast. When I start playing the video everything seemingly runs Every five seconds there is a really minor tiny hiccup in both sound and picture. As I said, the video is already buffered up really well and these keep occurring every four seconds.

Here is a link to a 4K HDR video on YouTube as an example.

This does not happen during offline video playback.

My CPU and GPU usage are pretty high (50%) during playback.

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  • What chipset is on your network interface? (Im thinking possibly along the line of interrupts on a cheap realtek card???) Alternatively this could be a software issue - what other software is running?
    – davidgo
    Commented Feb 23, 2019 at 19:25
  • @davidgo Not running any other software (that I know of). I'll add a screenshot of the processes from task manager (soon). The HDR works fine at 1440p. It buffers the data well in advance. My hunch is that the hiccup is a decoding issue. I read this when I did the research on my own: reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/8nv36x/youtube_hdr_support It seems "it is known" that HDR on Chrome is not terribly fast and requires a fast PC. I am wondering if the bottleneck is the CPU or the GPU or something else. I would be happy to explore your speculation. How should I test?
    – AturSams
    Commented Feb 24, 2019 at 11:07

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I ended up testing again with a Samsung Evo Plus (probably any nvme m.2 ssd would have worked) and they're completely gone! It appears there is a hidden hdd bottle neck even with SSDs somewhere in the decoding process.

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