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by mcescalante 4437 days ago
For some reason, G+ hangouts eat a lot more CPU for me than Skype does.
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stock_toaster 4437 days ago
Same here. Hangouts always seems to turn my aging laptop into a fireball.
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rikkus 4437 days ago
Lack of GPU acceleration of Flash?
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tambourine_man 4437 days ago
It uses WebRTC and the video tag AFAIK
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kansface 4437 days ago
Not yet- even on chrome webrtc isn't close to the polish/stability/feature set of the plugin.
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ars 4437 days ago
It's not flash, it's a custom plugin.
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coherentpony 4437 days ago
Is it Flash? I thought it was just webkit's video rendering.
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mcescalante 4437 days ago
I dunno, but it always makes me wonder if they test this on any consumer type machines and if their fans are going as fast as mine...
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aroch 4437 days ago
I'm more inclined to think lack of HW-decoding for VP8/9 + Google's "VideoandTalk" plugin on OSX is a piece of crap.
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