Youtube gone all choppy?

Has anyone else noticed youtube videos are weird in the last few days?  If something is moving quickly across the screen, it either moves in short motion bursts or there will be multiple versions of the moving object visible at the same time.

It's like watching a 8 or 12 frames per second in hd.

The higher the resolution, the more often this happens.  It's happening on videos i watched before without issue.

If it was dile-up days, I would think it's buffering. But my internet is moderately fast (speed test 242.1 Mbps download 143.4 Mbps upload), so it's not on my end.  Bitrate was another word we used to describe this symptom back in the day.  Not sure if that's still a thing.  My screen refresh rate is set to 90hz, so not that either

It's really hard to watch and is making me car sick.

we noticed this yesterday and the day before, we watch a lot of international sports (right now it's the spring sumo tournament in Japan and the baseball international competition, both we often get off youtube). I just assumed it was a buffering thing, but during the workday i listen to music on youtube and it's been fine.

Michael Brooks wrote:Sounds like a frame-rate or browser/driver issue. Try clearing your cache, disabling hardware acceleration in your browser, or updating your graphics driver. Sometimes YouTube’s VP9/AV1 codecs can glitch at higher resolutions switching to 1080p or forcing H.264 (via extensions) can help.

Done all the things.  Still choppy.

Tried on various computers and browsers, big monitor and tiny like one would see on a phone, different videos wnd frame rates - all play choppy.

I suppose it might be worth turning hardware acceleration on to see if that makes it better, but it slows down a lot of stuff like image and video editing.

I also noticed it has suddenly turned crappy at suggesting videos, instead of using my full history and training I've done to it (don't recomend button), it shows only videos from the last three channels I've watched and only about a dozen suggestions before giving up.  

It feels like the site is struggling.

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1rbqtgx/youtube_has_quietly_and_intentionally_cut_back/

Looks like it is a bitrate issue and done deliberately by yt.

That's just lovely.

The ads show at 1080 just fine.  It's only the videos that have this issue

Do the premium (paying) subscribers get the premium seamless video?
1080 for(ever) free seems like an unrealistic ask. The amount of traffic they host must be staggering.

Better than 1080 is promised to paying subscribers, but they seem to be complaining about this issue just as much as advert watchers like me.

As for "free", 2 to 3, 15 to 20 second, non skipabble ads every 55 seconds of video,  isn't exactly free.  For some reason, I ended up stuck on that experiment of theis for the last 2.5 years.  That's a lot of income they are getting from a free service, combined with data gathering and selling permissions we grant them...

r ransom wrote:https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1rbqtgx/youtube_has_quietly_and_intentionally_cut_back/

Looks like it is a bitrate issue and done deliberately by yt.

That's just lovely.

Good sleuthing, r!.....  I had noticed something irritating about my recent viewing but couldn't put a finger on exactly what it was.  Of course, with diminishing eyesight I would be questioning my own observational abilities here.

As for fleecing the consumer, Nelson Rockefeller's  quote keeps popping back up.  When he owned 90% of the (US?) oil industry and was asked how much money is enough, he replied "Just a little bit more....".  Speaks volumes....

I noticed for the last few years, they have been cutting frames from 30fps and higher so the viewing experience is jarring, and made worse if it's filmed inled lighting with a compatible flicker rate (ie, 30fps in a 60hz lighting).  So maybe I'm getting 15 frames per second viewing on 30fps video.

Which totally sucks for the creator as it takes way too much memory to make a 30 or 60fps video and the viewers get less quality than a normal 24fps.

Watching on the duckduckgo browser removes the problem.   It's like night and day.

r ransom wrote:Better than 1080 is promised to paying subscribers, but they seem to be complaining about this issue just as much as advert watchers like me.

As for "free", 2 to 3, 15 to 20 second, non skipabble ads every 55 seconds of video,  isn't exactly free.  For some reason, I ended up stuck on that experiment of theis for the last 2.5 years.  That's a lot of income they are getting from a free service, combined with data gathering and selling permissions we grant them...

Using Brave, Opera or Firefox with the uBlock Origin extension you won't see any of those ads...

The videos look fine to me with Firefox on a Linux PC. I'm not signed in to YouTube in case that makes a difference.