On Wednesday, 29 June 2016 23:48:17 UTC+10, Chris Laprise wrote: > > This touches on a pitfall I found in Qubes: If you play with memory or > device-assignment settings, the vm may end up not have memory balancing > enabled without you realizing it. Then you are running the vm with min > RAM only, and giving it something a bit challenging will cause it to > swap memory a great deal. > Exactly the thought that crossed my mind to say to do that.
The other reason I can think of for very high CPU use during playback > would be that the video is very high res and high quality. > Full HD video doesn't make THAT much difference compared to low resolution. It still should not use 8 threads fully. I can run MPV with 1 thread and 1 GB RAM on Debian Templated AppVM watching a Full HD video with no issue. Mind you I am using a high speed SSD. I don't know if that could be the cause either. Finally, some players may expect graphics capabilities that are very > different from what Qubes allows. Not all of them will perform > acceptably with minimal graphics support (and they are probably not > tested that way). > MPV doesn't need that much. It works fine in my templates with nothing special added. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/0597d7b3-8f4e-48bb-bfe0-298a9eeacd2c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
