PastryIRL, mind sharing the encoding settings you used for the Darkness maid videos? Starting with
darkness_maid 4.webm it became too much for my potato even being
vp8 encoded. The bitrate was too much for it. Rather it was too much
in Ren'Py 
. I was curious if I could drop the encoding settings a bit if it would still maintain enough quality.
I guess you could just consider my CPU to be under spec, but I don't have issues running the game otherwise.
I actually have a different solution to this as this isn't the only game to give me the problem. I finally got around to trying out
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. Despite what commit
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mentions, enabling
mmx &
mmxext offered a massive performance improvement during playback on my PC. Even the
OpeningMovie.webm plays smoothly now. Caveat being I built it with zero of the SDKs. Still no luck with the
vp9 Ren'Py bug though.