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Use Safari. Turn on the developer settings, and find the setting to disable VP9 in WebRTC. That will force Meet to stop using VP9 and switch to H264 for which MacBooks (and Intel CPUs in general) have a hardware accelerated decoder and encoder.

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Note that H264 is not as efficient as VP9, so you may end up using more bandwidth or have lower quality because of this.

true but this is a favorable tradeoff.

i also recommend forcing mpv->ytdl to h264 for the same reason; fan keeps quiet while watching youtube.

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