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1113 points Bluestein | 1 comments | 17 Aug 24 18:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.212s | source
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Venn1 ◴[17 Aug 24 21:20 UTC] No.41278065[source]▶
If you're on Linux, don't forget to enable hardware acceleration by adding hwdec=auto to mpv.conf. Works with AMD/Intel/NVIDIA.

https://interfacinglinux.com/2024/01/10/hardware-acceleratio...

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NavinF ◴[18 Aug 24 00:33 UTC] No.41279207[source]▶
Why would that be disabled by default?
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diggan ◴[18 Aug 24 01:04 UTC] No.41279339[source]▶
Doesn't work on all systems, I presume. Better to default to something that definitely works everywhere.

https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/a3baf94ab9f3b43a8027d...

Would be appropriate to have true/false/auto instead of auto==true though, so auto wouldn't use it unless it confirmed to be working.

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1. NavinF ◴[20 Aug 24 18:20 UTC] No.41302533[source]▶
Still, isn't this bizarre? Over the last couple of decades using Windows and macOS across many machines, I've encountered one time I had to mess with settings like this. That's the time I temporarily disabled hw accel in chrome so I could screenshare and watch a show with someone.

Meanwhile on Linux you gotta configure every app one at a time because sane defaults and auto configuration weren't invented here.