On 05/20 09:44, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Monday, May 18, 2020 8:22:52 PM CEST tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > On 05/18 09:58, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: > > > On 2020-05-18 09:40, tastytea wrote: > > > > Another solution is to modify the priority yourself, with `renice > > > > --priority 15 $(pidof blender)` for example. The priority can be from > > > > -20 (very high priority) to 19 (very low priority). > > > > > > According to the man page for renice, there is a --gpu flag that can be > > > used (today I learned) that the OP may want to try as well. > > > > If it is a load/performance problem, why is only > > firefox/internet-video affected? > > firefox might be using GPU-offloading for the video playback (decoder in GPU) > where MPV might not use the GPU for decoding and is only CPU-bound. > > -- > Joost > > >
Hi Joost, mpv is installed as follows: [I] media-video/mpv Available versions: 0.32.0-r1^t **9999*l^t {+X +alsa aqua archive bluray cdda +cli coreaudio cplugins cuda debug doc drm dvb dvd +egl gamepad gbm +iconv jack javascript jpeg lcms +libass libcaca libmpv +lua luajit openal +opengl oss pulseaudio raspberry-pi rubberband samba sdl selinux test tools +uchardet vaapi vdpau vulkan wayland +xv zimg zlib PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_6 python3_7 python3_8"} Installed versions: 0.32.0-r1^t(08:15:17 AM 05/16/2020)(X alsa cdda cli cuda dvb dvd egl iconv jpeg lcms libass lua luajit opengl oss rubberband sdl uchardet xv zlib -aqua -archive -bluray -coreaudio -cplugins -debug -doc -drm -gamepad -gbm -jack -javascript -libcaca -libmpv -openal -pulseaudio -raspberry-pi -samba -selinux -test -tools -vaapi -vdpau -vulkan -wayland -zimg PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_7 -python3_6 -python3_8") Homepage: https://mpv.io/ https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv Description: Media player based on MPlayer and mplayer2 The USE flag "cuda" - therefore mpv should be able to utilize the GPU... Cheers! Meino