Reply 360 of 407, by lti
I guess the YouTube problems are just my desktop. I played a few videos on my laptop, and they played fine instead of playing for two seconds, restarting, playing for seven seconds, skipping forward 10 seconds, playing for a few minutes (possibly skipping forward more times), and then stopping and buffering non-stop until I refresh the page (or if it recovers and starts playing again, it will skip back 20 seconds). Also, the laptop defaults to 720p, while the automatic quality setting on my desktop (with the same Intel GPU, Windows version, browser, and browser extensions) won't go above 480p (I have to manually select higher resolutions).
To make things even more strange, my old Linux box defaults to 1080p60 with no hardware video decoding and a CPU that isn't able to play 1080p60 smoothly (and a screen resolution under 1080p).