HW video acceleration in Chrome

HW video acceleration in Chrome

Hey there, I've noticed that when I run Youtube videos in Chrome, it seems to be using my CPU not my GPU. This sucks because even with a 5950x, it ends up stuttering.

I have HW acceleration on, and if I use VLC or QT, it plays just fine and uses the GPU. Am I doing something wrong that's sending the video to the CPU?

Even better would be if it could send WindowServer to the GPU instead of hogging my CPU.

Here's proof:

https://preview.redd.it/z8ayiilg4so71.png?width=1332&format=png&auto=webp&s=5cc366f10c655e7a500b8cdfcada4b456aaaa5ae

This is with a 60fps 8k video playing. Any ideas?

Specs:

MSI x570 ACE

AMD 5950x

AMD 6900XT

Big Sur 11.6

OC 0.7

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