Brave running horrendous on streaming sites and multiple screen setup

Brave Browser Desktop Support
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*Been using Brave for a while now and it gives me plenty of problems that i didn’t have with other browsers.

Just to be transparent i have 2.5 Gbit internet and programs like Steam for example can download at a speed of 270mb/s for reference. How is it possible that Brave constantly has to buffer and suffers from hanging/lag especially with video resolutions above 1080p. 4k for example runs so absolutely horrendous i pretty much have to give up watching them because Brave just can’t handle it for some reason. To be clear this happens when bandwidth is completely free and i have no single other program using the network.

Now that is one thing and the other is just how absolutely horrible playback is on a multimonitor setting and playing two videos on two screens at the same time. It’s like Brave completely breaks in that case and doesn’t even manage to play one of the two successfully.

I noticed i’m far from being alone with these problems as i can find a large number of people suffering from the very same issues.

If i can’t find a fix for this issue i will have to drop this browser again.*

Description of the issue:
How can this issue be reproduced?

  1. play youtube video

  2. wait for unjustified buffering

  3. lose mind

Expected result:

Brave Version: v1.88.134

Additional Information:

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It would help to know what kind of computer you have. Mac, Windows, Linux? Do you have hardware accelerated graphics enabled? (If not, your CPU does all the work, rather than the GPU like it should be).

I cannot reproduce this issue here, but some Mac users have been having issues.

Please report back with the required information to troubleshoot.

(For a 4k stream, you don’t even need more than 30Mbps Internet honestly, bitrates and all, so your issue is likely a decoding issue, not a network issue.)

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Windows 11 always up to date just like my Nvidia drivers.
Hardware acceleration is ON in Brave.
Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling is ON in Windows 11.