So, straight to the point: My laptop can handle 1080p videos smoothly if i play them OFFline(downloaded videos)with an average CPU usage of 20% - 35% but i go to the internet and try to play 1 video in hd , even in 720p , the CPU usage goes up to 99% and the video becomes pretty much a photo sequence instead of a video. MY QUESTIONS ARE: What can i do? , What's the problem?

These are my system properties:

AMD E2-1800 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics 1.70GHz

RAM: 4,00GB (3,59GB usable)

64 bits operative system , procesor x64

Thank you for your time.If you can play them offline with no problems, a likely candidate may be your internet connection. If you are using w-fi for the connection to your router, try with wired connection. If that makes no difference, and you get trouble with all online streaming sources, not just one, then you may have a problem with your ISP's internet service.

I have used wired conexion in the past , the problem is still there , my dad uses a laptop like mine , a little bit better , but HE CAN watch videos in hd , so the wifi is not the problem , and yes , everything in my computer is updated. Any other ideas? , Oh , I only have 67.2 gb free from the 90 gb total space, maybe that have something to do?.All devices dont get the same signal...go to Speedtest.net and check your connection...can you provide the details from a speed TEST of your internet connection?

go here speedof.me and start a test...


(sorry patio, you just ninja'd me)There you go...

[attachment deleted by admin to conserve space]My thoughts are that the APU itself is on the weak side for having to deal with a video source that isnt local. As well as there could be scripts running at that website wherever the stream is from that also adds additional burden to the weak APU.

When the video is local on your hard drive its a much simpler process of playing the video, the data is easier for the CPU to handle playing as a local FILE as well as you dont have some website running scripts to monitor your stream and prompt for commercials at timer intervals and all that.

But when its streaming you have a few things coming into play. This video is on a website that has other stuff going on in the background and this adds a load onto your CPU portion of the APU. Additionally the data that is to be played on your screen is coming in the form of packets that have to be reassembled back into video content for the GPU portion of the APU to handle and at 1080p thats a lot of packets very quickly. So the CPU is having to reassemble data in order to play that data out as a video stream and frame rate plunges as the CPU is maxed out unable to keep up with the juggle at a rate that you would enjoy.

Here is the CPU benchmark score of 821. Its very week by todays standards. https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+E2-1800+APU

I guess best suggestion I have is, if your able to download the videos, do that first and play them locally to try to ease the load on the CPU to playing local data that doesnt need to be reassembled into a video steam in the memory BUFFER. Sorry I dont have better news, but it is what it is.Thanks i guess that's the problem, but what i really don't understand is why when it was new i could watch smoothly videos in 1080p
and you tell me that is too weak? uhmm i guess this is "Topic Solved" I had a Intel Atom 1.66Ghz APU weakling netbook that use to play streaming videos with no problems when it was new. I had same issues where eventually I was getting choppy video. I did a full factory reset and also made sure that the processor wasnt overheating and thermal throttling. I TRIED all sorts of stuff and Youtube Downloader I ended up using to be able to watch videos smoothly, but thats after they are downloaded and not everything downloadable. It was frustrating but as time passes the demands of the internet are greater and greater and eventually that system that use to play the streaming videos with no problems is now too slow to keep up with the data juggle that is required to play the video smoothly. My netbook got from choppy streaming video to now where even 360p is pathetically lagged out so I no longer use it for streaming and use a better laptop that has no problems with it with a Core i3 2.1 Ghz processor and Intel HD Graphics. But someday that too will run into the same issue as the processing demands from the internet ever increase. Sorry to be bearer of bad news with your computer.

If your able to drop it to 720 or 360 is it bearable? 360 is pretty bad but 720 might be bearable.