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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Playing video and CPU usage
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2019 12:48:09
Message-Id: q1cnhk$g8t$1@blaine.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Playing video and CPU usage by Dale
1 On 12/01/2019 07:00, Dale wrote:
2 > It is nvidia based.  Question, how do I know it is using
3 > the video card to process as much of the video as it is supposed to be
4 > doing?
5 You already corrected the vdpau USE flag thing. As for smplayer, you
6 should select "gpu" (it might be named "opengl", depending on the
7 version of mpv) in "General" in the "Video" tab.
8
9 In "Performance", you can set "Hardware decoding" to "vpau". If that
10 doesn't work, then "vdpau-copy". There's also "cuda" and "cuda-copy".
11 Not sure which works better.
12
13 All this assumes you use mpv in smplayer, not mplayer. Using mpv is
14 highly recommended.