{"id":5911,"date":"2020-06-28T23:53:52","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T04:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/?p=5911"},"modified":"2020-06-28T23:57:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T04:57:22","slug":"tip-save-ram-lower-cpu-usage-by-playing-youtube-videos-in-potplayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/2020\/06\/28\/tip-save-ram-lower-cpu-usage-by-playing-youtube-videos-in-potplayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip: Save RAM, Lower CPU Usage By Playing Youtube Videos In PotPlayer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/potplayeryoutube.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/potplayeryoutube.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5912\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/potplayeryoutube.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/potplayeryoutube-500x450.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Youtube and videos in general are notorious resource hogs. For years the main culprit was Flash but the promise of a more efficient HTML5 is largely forgotten now as most browsers handle videos poorly. A computer with more than enough power can still fall prey to a browser grabbing more and more of its memory and processor when watching videos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One way to save more than just resources, even help a solid state drive lifespan, is to install the PotPlayer video player and a corresponding browser addon\/extension to open and play videos outside of a Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Opera and others. The program is lightweight, feature rich and regularly maintained but its best use is perhaps watching online videos. After the  addon\/extension is installed buttons will appear under videos or a link added to the right click menus on YouTube&#8217;s front or other pages. Links below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>PotPlayer https:\/\/potplayer.daum.net\/<\/li><li>Chrome extension (For Google Chrome, Opera and other Chromium based browsers) https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/potplayer-youtube-shortcu\/cfdpeaefecdlkdlgdpjjllmhlnckcodp<\/li><li>Direct Opera version https:\/\/addons.opera.com\/en\/extensions\/details\/potplayer-youtube-shortcut\/<\/li><li>Firefox extension https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-CA\/firefox\/addon\/potplayer-youtube-shortcut\/<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Youtube and videos in general are notorious resource hogs. For years the main culprit was Flash but the promise of a more efficient HTML5 is largely forgotten now as most browsers handle videos poorly. A computer with more than enough power can still fall prey to a browser grabbing more and more of its memory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[531],"class_list":["post-5911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software-reviews","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5911"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5916,"href":"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5911\/revisions\/5916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}