When I disconnect laptop from charging, any video player tab in brave starts lagging

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Description of the issue:
When I disconnect laptop from power, Any video player (AWS, Youtube etc.) Starts freezing/lagging (video plays for 6 seconds, around 3rd seccond, video starts playing in slow motion while audio is fine, around 6th second, video stops and visuals teleport to correct place, freeze for a second, repeat this even if I re-start browser, reopen tabs etc. NOTE: when I switch to other browser like Firefox, this doesn’t happen, I suspect somethig to do with batery saving, particulary: switching between dedicated GPU to integrated APU.

Steps to Reproduce (add as many as necessary):

  1. Launch Brave
  2. Visit any website that hosts videos, like youtube or twitch.
  3. watch some videos (in fullscreen) while charging laptop
  4. disconnect charger.
    Quick note: I noticed this happening especially when I play some video game and disconnect power
    Actual Result:
    Video starts freezing the way I described above.

Expected Result:
Video should continue without lagging.

Reproduces how often:
Always~~ish, I found it happening more often when GPU-intensive task is done before I turn-off charging.

Brave release - Version 1.52.126

Reproducible on current live release (yes/no):
Yes

Additional information:
I’m using Windows 11, BUT this was happening on windows 10 too. My laptop has AMD-Nvidia combo ( AMD Ryzen 7 4800H With Nvidia Geforce GTX 1650 ← Revision with GDDR6)

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Can you try disabling Hardware Acceleration in settings to see if this resolves the issue?

You’ll find this in Settings --> Additional Settings --> System --> Hardware Acceleration

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Could be switching between the AMD GPU and Nvidia GPU. The AMD GPU might be more effiecent when off charging and when charged its using the Nvidia GPU.

There is a option in Windows Settings to configure a per-app on what GPU uses.

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Sorry for late response, mail was put into spam. Will try that out

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