https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=376893

--- Comment #5 from Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to yulinux from comment #4)
> I just freshly installed the new Fedora 26 and compiled kaffeine from git.
> In my case there is no difference between git and the last version, but it
> is pretty smooth most of the time now. This has nothing to do with changes
> of kaffeine, though.
> 
> The problem was the VDPAU package, that should actually accelerate the video
> processing. Because after installing the package mesa-vdpau-drivers and
> enable it via "$ export VDPAU_DRIVER=r600" (known bug in fedora, see e.g.
> [1]), it starts stuttering. After removing the package it works okay again.
> Although all 4 cores are at ~100%. 
> Maybe also other changes of the new system are relevant.
> 
> So it seems not to be a problem of kaffeine alone, but more like a problem
> of VDPAU. Or the use of VDPAU of libVLC when the used codec is not
> supported. VDPAU on my GPU does not support H.265.

Yeah, HEVC support is restricted to a few GPUs.

> But as VDPAU development
> seems not very active any more and my hardware is also relatively "old",
> probably it's not worth to investigate further.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1305699

Thanks for testing and providing the above information. I added a
summary of the above at README.md, with will hopefully help others
that may have troubles setting vdpau:

https://commits.kde.org/kaffeine/a16fdee4de0f007874cd9aff3fbe93731e8473f9

README.md: Add an extra section about vdpau settings

Properly setting vdpau may reduce CPU usage on Kaffeine.
So, add a chapter describing how to do it in order to
workaround for a few known issues.

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