I have a Samsung Odyssey G5 (G53F) 27-inch, 200 Hz monitor and an AMD RX 6700 XT GPU. When I watch YouTube on Brave (or Opera GX), some videos stutter or lag, even after disabling hardware acceleration, lowering the refresh rate to 165 Hz, and applying other tweaks. The issue only happens on this monitor and only in some videos—Chrome runs YouTube completely smoothly. I’ve already turned off Multi-Plane Overlay (MPO) in the registry. It seems to be a problem with high-Hz monitors, certain video codecs (AV1/VP9), and how Brave/Opera handle video rendering with AMD GPUs.
You didn’t follow the template, but you did say enough that I might be able to go on.
With that said, there’s one/two major things missing.
- OS Version?
- Brave version?
Now let’s get into the guessing part with the information I have. I have an RX 7900 XT and know a bit or two about movies, editing, frame rates, etc. First, 200Hz and 165Hz aren’t compatible with 24fps, 30fps, or 60fps content, it’s not a perfect multiple. So there will be jitter.
120hz or 240hz are the only refresh rates to cover most common framerates. Now if it’s European content like 25 or 50fps, then 200hz should work just fine, but 165hz doesn’t fit in any situation here.
There’s no actual way to fix this other than to match. It’s why movies in Europe, shot at 24fps, are/were (not sure if it still is the case) were played back at 25fps, for their 50Hz TV’s. In America for 24fps content we slowed it down to 23.976fps, altered our video timing from 60Hz to 59.96 (when color came out) and now we can do 1 frame 3 times, next frame 2 times, next frame 3 times, next frame 2 times (3:2 pulldown).
You can do 3:2 pulldown on modern monitors, but it involves math (your refresh rate divided by the framerate content. If it’s a whole number, perfect match. If it ends in .5, that’s the 3:2 area).
You did say Chrome ran completely fine whereas OperaGX did not. I don’t know about this one personally, all 3 are based on the same Chromium source including video decoding and rendering pipeline. I do not know of a difference here unless you setup some profile in Adrenaline Edition to treat them differently.
Yeah. I know about chromium engine on Brave, OPERA and Chrome. I have Windows 11 PRO 25H2 and Brave Version 1.86.146. 24FPS or 30FPS or 60FPS videos run completely fine with the google chrome. It does mostly like music videos, but dashcams dont do it.