Thanks for that.
My focus for the past couple of months has been specifically on VAAPI
for Intel HD graphics. That is stable and performs very well too. Intel
HD graphics is important because that covers the vast majority of our
users.
As an example, with a UHD test video I get CPU usage of:
Re hwdec:
https://git.srsfckn.biz/mpv/commit/?id=dbef5b737e2f994f02923c8214cba368b663a655
Also, off the top of my head:
- vaapi-egl does not work on AMD hardware AFAIK, breaking hwdec on Wayland and
resulting in low-quality or incorrect color conversion when vaapi-glx is used
- VDPAU does not
That is not true. The platform order fix was proposed to upstream 6 weeks
before it was applied to Ubuntu:
https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/pull/4556
At the time the only reason given for upstream not liking it was that native
wayland surfaces lack title bars. That's not good enough reason to
Could you explain to me why you did not ask upstream about this? There
are reasons for these defaults, and this is likely going to flood our
issue tracker. Is this how Ubuntu maintains packages in general? Just
fuck upstream and change defaults because one user thinks he knows
better?
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This bug was fixed in the package mpv - 0.26.0-3ubuntu1
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mpv (0.26.0-3ubuntu1) artful; urgency=medium
* Prefer Wayland over X11, so if both are present (e.g. Xwayland) then
VA-API gets a display type that works (LP: #1698287)
* Enable hardware acceleration by default (LP:
** Changed in: mpv (Ubuntu)
Status: In Progress => Fix Committed
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Title:
Enable hardware video decoding by default in mpv
To manage
Here's the fix. Working hardware acceleration out-of-the-box, in Wayland
and Xorg.
** Patch added: "mpv_0.26.0-3ubuntu1.debdiff"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mpv/+bug/1708102/+attachment/4929265/+files/mpv_0.26.0-3ubuntu1.debdiff
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** Summary changed:
- Enable hardware video decoding by default
+ Enable hardware video decoding by default in mpv
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