Re: xdg-email config
On 2018-06-11, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jun 2018, Curt wrote: > >> ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps >> >> which contains, in my case >> >> [Default Applications] >> x-scheme-handler/mailto=alpine.desktop >> > I have also a mimeapps.list with that line in .config and > .local/share/applications > but that doesn't solve the problem. The only work around I found was using > the > script I mentionned earlier. > > best regards, What does "XDG_UTILS_DEBUG_LEVEL=2 xdg-email" say? curty@einstein:~$ XDG_UTILS_DEBUG_LEVEL=2 xdg-email Checking /home/curty/.config/mimeapps.list Checking /home/curty/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list Running gvfs-open "mailto:";
Re: xdg-email config
On Tue, 12 Jun 2018, Curt wrote: What does "XDG_UTILS_DEBUG_LEVEL=2 xdg-email" say? Checking /data/home/frenkiel/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list Selected DE generic Checking /data/home/frenkiel/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel
Software and Updates Restart notification Stretch
hello, I am getting a notification in Gnome saying there are packages to be updated and I get the option to click on a button saying Update and Restart. However, if I do a regular apt upgrade, I dont need to restart my system. Why am I getting this notification? since when do I need to restart my system to upgrade any package in Debian? thanks,
Re: Software and Updates Restart notification Stretch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 08:30:39AM -0500, Anil Duggirala wrote: > hello, > I am getting a notification in Gnome saying there are packages to be > updated and I get the option to click on a button saying Update and > Restart. However, if I do a regular apt upgrade, I dont need to restart > my system. Why am I getting this notification? since when do I need to > restart my system to upgrade any package in Debian? No need to restart for an upgrade. But sometimes, the upgrade will only take effect after a restart: it's obvious in the case of the kernel, but also for some core libraries. Many "services" (database, web server) are restarted after the upgrade without need to restart the whole system. Cheers - -- tomás -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlsf0+4ACgkQBcgs9XrR2kZXpACfTsH/iv6iqmHFH5jSieSfXuiv ujUAn0D5Gb+jb+d6TJHZyrl/bHa5j9vh =hZi3 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Software and Updates Restart notification Stretch
> No need to restart for an upgrade. But sometimes, the upgrade will only > take effect after a restart: it's obvious in the case of the kernel, > but also for some core libraries. > Why has this become a "default" behavior, at least with Gnome, in Debian Stretch then ? A notification appears asking the user to upgrade and restart the whole system. If it is not necessary, why has this feature been implemented as part of the DE?
Re: Software and Updates Restart notification Stretch
On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 09:31:47AM -0500, Anil Duggirala wrote: > > No need to restart for an upgrade. But sometimes, the upgrade will only > > take effect after a restart: it's obvious in the case of the kernel, > > but also for some core libraries. > > > > Why has this become a "default" behavior, at least with Gnome, in Debian > Stretch then ? A notification appears asking the user to upgrade and restart > the whole system. If it is not necessary, why has this feature been > implemented as part of the DE? > Because the feature comes from GNOME, who have always been interested in supporting the least knowledgeable user whenever possible. For those users, it is hard to explain how an update might or might not take effect without a reboot. -dsr-
Latest version of X not starting in buster
A couple of months ago, xserver-common, xserver-xorg-core and xserver-xorg-legacy were upgraded from version 1.19.2 to 1.19.6 in Buster. But since then, when starting X from the console, the process soon comes to a grinding halt. These are the last lines: (==) Log file: "/home//local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue Jun 12 16:18:18 2018 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" (==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d" (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d" When I downgrade the three packages back to 1.19.2, same as in Stretch, then X starts without problems. Now that 1.19.6 still does not work after a few months, what could be the reason? These are the last lines in the mentioned log file: [30.968] (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/console Permission denied. [30.968] (II) console: opening input device '/dev/console' failed (Permission denied). [30.968] (II) console - failed to create input device '/dev/console'. [30.968] (EE) libinput: (unnamed): Failed to create a device for /dev/console [30.968] (EE) PreInit returned 2 for "(unnamed)" [30.968] (II) UnloadModule: "libinput" [30.968] (II) config/udev: Adding input device (unnamed) (/dev/ptmx) [30.968] (**) (unnamed): Applying InputClass "Logitech USB Laser Mouse" [30.968] (II) Using input driver 'libinput' for '(unnamed)' [30.969] (EE) systemd-logind: failed to take device /dev/ptmx: No such device [30.969] (**) (unnamed): always reports core events [30.969] (**) Option "Device" "/dev/ptmx" [30.969] (**) Option "_source" "server/udev"
Re: Software and Updates Restart notification Stretch
On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 11:04:12AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 09:31:47AM -0500, Anil Duggirala wrote: > No need to restart for an upgrade. But sometimes, the upgrade will only > take effect after a restart: it's obvious in the case of the kernel, > but also for some core libraries. > Why has this become a "default" behavior, at least with Gnome, in Debian Stretch then ? A notification appears asking the user to upgrade and restart the whole system. If it is not necessary, why has this feature been implemented as part of the DE? Because the feature comes from GNOME, who have always been interested in supporting the least knowledgeable user whenever possible. For those users, it is hard to explain how an update might or might not take effect without a reboot. Really? The 'needrestart' package seems to do quite a good job of this. The main issue is that, if a library is upgraded, then a long-running process probably won't notice (aside: on Linux, one can delete a file and replace it, but a process with a handle to the old file generally won't be affected). needrestart scans the process table after an upgrade and, if a process has a handle to a deleted library, it is noted. If that process is part of a service, needrestart gives the option to restart the service. If the process is part of user session, then needrestart can pop-up a message telling the user to either restart the application (e.g. in the case of their browser) or to logout-login (e.g. in the case of a window manager). Now, it may be the case that there are so many applications running that it's just as easy to reboot as it is to close and restart them all, but that's up to the user. -dsr- -- For more information, please reread. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Your Epic Games Account Has Been Created
Am Tue, 12 Jun 2018 10:02:13 + schrieb Epic Games : > Account Created. > > > Hi QWBxj1517! > > You have successfully created an Epic Games account. > > Thank you for signing up! > > Kind Regards, > Your Friends at Epic > > > Need Help? h...@epicgames.com (mailto:h...@epicgames.com?subject=My > Subject ID) > > © 2004-2018, Epic Games, Inc. All rights reserved. Epic Games, Unreal > Tournament, Fortnite, Paragon, Unreal, Unreal Engine, UE4 and their > respective logos are Epic's trademarks or registered trademarks in > the United States of America and elsewhere. Terms of Service > (https://www.epicgames.com/tos) | Privacy Policy > (https://www.epicgames.com/privacypolicy) No, I never did anything to create an account at Epic Games. I do not even know who or what Epic Games is. You better take me off your lists and tell me this before I look what State Attorney is in charge of things like that. Hans Vogelsberger
Hibernation does not work after upgrade to Stretch
Dear all, Recently I upgraded my Jessie to Stretch and since then I do not have working hibernation. When I do hibernate-disk, then it seems to be making a memory snapshot, but when I restart I gets a hang up with a black screen or reboot (depends on which kernel version I use). Already tried with 4.16.0-0.bpo.2-686-pae, 4.16.0-0.bpo.1-686-pae and with linux-image-3.16.0-5-686-pae. How should I debug this issue and fix it? Regards, Piotr
Re: Software and Updates Restart notification Stretch
On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 04:14:23PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 11:04:12AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 09:31:47AM -0500, Anil Duggirala wrote: > > > > No need to restart for an upgrade. But sometimes, the upgrade will only > > > > take effect after a restart: it's obvious in the case of the kernel, > > > > but also for some core libraries. > > > > > > > > > > Why has this become a "default" behavior, at least with Gnome, in Debian > > > Stretch then ? A notification appears asking the user to upgrade and > > > restart the whole system. If it is not necessary, why has this feature > > > been implemented as part of the DE? > > > > > > > Because the feature comes from GNOME, who have always been > > interested in supporting the least knowledgeable user whenever > > possible. > > > > For those users, it is hard to explain how an update might or > > might not take effect without a reboot. > > Really? The 'needrestart' package seems to do quite a good job of this. The > main issue is that, if a library is upgraded, then a long-running process > probably won't notice (aside: on Linux, one can delete a file and replace > it, but a process with a handle to the old file generally won't be > affected). needrestart scans the process table after an upgrade and, if a > process has a handle to a deleted library, it is noted. If that process is > part of a service, needrestart gives the option to restart the service. If > the process is part of user session, then needrestart can pop-up a message > telling the user to either restart the application (e.g. in the case of > their browser) or to logout-login (e.g. in the case of a window manager). Sure, needrestart works for Debian. It's not always installed, though. You could make it a dependency -- and now GNOME depends on a non-GNOME package. The integration will be different for each distribution. The GNOME people don't care. If you want this to happen in Debian, you need the Debian people packaging GNOME to care about it. -dsr-
Re: Hibernation does not work after upgrade to Stretch
Am Dienstag, 12. Juni 2018, 17:31:44 CEST schrieb Piotr: Same here, just almost since a year. I doubt, this will be fixed. As far as I read, this is too difficult for the developers, due to the very different hardware. The problem is, the playing together with kernel, hardware and hibernation software is too complex, so there is only little chance, this bug can be dfixed at all. Sorry, to disappoint you at the moment. Best Hans > Dear all, > > Recently I upgraded my Jessie to Stretch and since then I do not have > working hibernation. > > When I do hibernate-disk, then it seems to be making a memory snapshot, > but when I restart I gets a hang up with a black screen or reboot > (depends on which kernel version I use). Already tried with > 4.16.0-0.bpo.2-686-pae, 4.16.0-0.bpo.1-686-pae and with > linux-image-3.16.0-5-686-pae. > > How should I debug this issue and fix it? > > Regards, > Piotr
/etc/localtime and How it Works
After getting curious about what all is in /etc/localtime, I found out that one can read the binary with zdump. zdump -v filename produces a number of lines that correspond to continuity breaks such as the shift from standard time in Winter to Daylight Saving Time or Summer Time. I happen to live in the Central United States so /etc/localtime is a copy of /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago and zdump -v of this file shows about 450 lines showing the start and end of DST from 1901 through 2038 when we run out of bits in the current 32-bit counter. One striking change is the switch to War Time that started in February of 1942 and ended on August 14 of 1945 with no modification of any kind between those two dates. Some parts of the country actually added two hours of time shifting in Summer and then dropped back to War Time in the Winter. The Chicago file shows a single hour of time shift during War time. I looked at /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York to see what the Eastern Time Zone did and got a surprise. Instead of 450 odd lines, there are only 4 which basically describe the 1901-2038 life span of the file. I was expecting America/New_York to look just like America/Chicago except for the UTC offset and maybe some slightly different dates back when DST was mostly used on the coasts and not at all in much of the middle of the country. Oklahoma and Texas, for example, didn't use any time shifting except for War Time until 1967 after passage of the Uniform Time Standards Act and a decision by all the major television networks of the day to no longer send delayed broadcasts down their wires to affiliates in states that didn't observe DST. So, my question is why is there such a difference between the two files and how do people in the Eastern Time Zone automatically learn of the two time shifts each year? Martin McCormick
Re: /etc/localtime and How it Works
On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 12:38:05PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > I looked at /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York to see > what the Eastern Time Zone did and got a surprise. Instead of > 450 odd lines, there are only 4 which basically describe the > 1901-2038 life span of the file. wooledg:~$ zdump -v America/New_York | wc 2324 37136 229862
Re: /etc/localtime and How it Works
On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 12:38:05PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > I was expecting America/New_York to look just like > America/Chicago except for the UTC offset and maybe some slightly > different dates back when DST was mostly used on the coasts and > not at all in much of the middle of the country. > > Oklahoma and Texas, for example, didn't use any time > shifting except for War Time until 1967 after passage of the > Uniform Time Standards Act and a decision by all the major > television networks of the day to no longer send delayed > broadcasts down their wires to affiliates in states that didn't > observe DST. > > So, my question is why is there such a difference between > the two files and how do people in the Eastern Time Zone > automatically learn of the two time shifts each year? You have just stepped into a minefield. It's a really interesting one, though. First: the compilation of timezone data is the Olson Database, after the original editor. The current editor is Paul Eggert, and the America/New_York style nomenclature is his fault. https://www.iana.org/time-zones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database Second: every decision recorded in the Olson Database is a political decision. Science and engineering don't really enter into it much. In many countries, the national government sets the standard, and that's that. In the USA, the federal government sets the dates for changing from standard to daylight saving time and back, but does not mandate adoption of DST or any specific timezone. You'd think that at least each state would be consistent internally, but that's not necessarily the case either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Time_Zone So, to answer your question: laws are passed and the information published in the same way that other laws are published, plus newspapers and TV news and so forth tend to be vocal about the issue. And Eggert learns about it and puts it in the database, and then everybody makes changes to their copies of tz. -dsr-
Re: /etc/localtime and How it Works
Greg Wooledge writes: > wooledg:~$ zdump -v America/New_York | wc >2324 37136 229862 My mistake was that I used cd to get to /usr/share/zoneinfo/America and then I did zdump -v New_York and it didn't complain at all but printed out just the 4 lines that made me think it was processing the file. It's not but this is probably a lead-in and lead-out that brackets the interpretation of the binary data in the file. giving zdump the America/New_York path produced output that does, in fact, look just like America/Chicago except for the things one would expect to be different such as the UTC offsets. also, another poster mentioned about the information being based on political decisions. A perfect example just occurred in the last few weeks in which the DPRK and ROK agreed to use the same time zone again. The difference had been 1800 seconds or 30 minutes. Thanks. Martin McCormick
combining stable and testing in sources.list
I mistakenly added two lines with 'testing' to my 'sources.list' file, which now looks like this: deb http://debian.osuosl.org/debian/ stretch main non-free contrib deb-src http://debian.osuosl.org/debian/ stretch main non-free contrib deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates main contrib non-free deb http://debian.osuosl.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://debian.osuosl.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free # my bad: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib I have read that it's difficult or impossible to revert to 'stable' once 'testing' packages have been installed. I have also read that it's not a good idea to have both 'stable' and 'testing' repositories in 'sources.list', so I'm wondering how to proceed. I experimented with replacing 'stretch' by 'buster' in the first six lines above (and removing the last two lines), but then the system couldn't find the stable google-chrome repository in '/etc/apt/sources.list.d'. I now have the uncomfortable feeling that I'm playing with fire. Thanks in advance for any suggestions about if/how I should edit my 'sources.list' file! -Paul
Re: combining stable and testing in sources.list
There is a bit of misunderstanding here. Lines in /etc/apt/sources.list (as well as in sources.list.d) are just a description of used repositories. By itself they couldn't change anything in the OS. When you 'apt-get update' it downloads package lists. This is fine, as no damage was done yet. But when you use apt-get upgrade, or apt-get install (something), then those new package lists may mess up system. The reason is that some packages may have other packages as dependencies, and those dependencies from the newer debian version may conflict with existing ones, or cause some packages removal (f.e. some package may say that it 'replaces' some other package). Rolling back this testing/stable mix is a huge pain. If you done some minor installation of something without dependencies, than you may just revert it back to older version. It there was a major update, then... Well, upgrade to testing and live with it. Or reinstall OS. If you want to understand the state of your system, look here: /var/log/apt/history.log - log of installations/upgrades /var/log/apt/term.log - output of installation process You can see currently installed packages: dpkg -l For each package you can see 'policy' by using apt-cache policy command. It shows which version of a given package is coming from which release. F.e.: apt-cache policy xpad The main pain point here is dependencies of dependencies... I was able few times roll back back upgrade, but it took me few hours of heavy work, and I couldn't recommend doing this to anyone. TL;DR; 1. If you just added those lines in sources.list - just remove them 2. If you added them and used apt-get update - remove them and call apt-get update again 3. If you installed or upgraded your system after that - you have a problem On 12/06/18 22:15, murta...@stat.orst.edu wrote: I mistakenly added two lines with 'testing' to my 'sources.list' file, which now looks like this: deb http://debian.osuosl.org/debian/ stretch main non-free contrib deb-src http://debian.osuosl.org/debian/ stretch main non-free contrib deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates main contrib non-free deb http://debian.osuosl.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://debian.osuosl.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free # my bad: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib I have read that it's difficult or impossible to revert to 'stable' once 'testing' packages have been installed. I have also read that it's not a good idea to have both 'stable' and 'testing' repositories in 'sources.list', so I'm wondering how to proceed. I experimented with replacing 'stretch' by 'buster' in the first six lines above (and removing the last two lines), but then the system couldn't find the stable google-chrome repository in '/etc/apt/sources.list.d'. I now have the uncomfortable feeling that I'm playing with fire. Thanks in advance for any suggestions about if/how I should edit my 'sources.list' file! -Paul
Re: Hibernation does not work after upgrade to Stretch
On Tue, 12 Jun 2018 18:12:42 +0200 Hans wrote: > Am Dienstag, 12. Juni 2018, 17:31:44 CEST schrieb Piotr: > Same here, just almost since a year. I doubt, this will be fixed. As far as I > read, this is too difficult for the developers, due to the very different > hardware. The problem is, the playing together with kernel, hardware and > hibernation software is too complex, so there is only little chance, this bug > can be dfixed at all. > > Sorry, to disappoint you at the moment. It is pity that it worked well with Jessie with no hardware change. Somebody told me that I should try different kernel versions, but even the latest does not work. It was nice to have a hibernate to disk, but now I have to live without it. Luckily debian starts fast on my old laptop, Thanks for the info. Regards, Piotr
SSL to TLS
In Debian i will need to change over to the TLS secure protocol. is this done by certificate update or must i also update the software. in particular i am using Perl to send and receive i believe SSL protocol now. my current Debian is 4.1.2-25, Kernel 2.6.26-2 Amd, Apache 2, Postfix other system info: curl 7.18.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.18.2 OpenSSL/0.9.8g zlib/1.2.3.3 libidn/1.8 libssh2/0.18 and if i must change the software is there a seemless way to upgrade without altering other settings.
Re: SSL to TLS
culser wrote: > [...]` > my current Debian is 4.1.2-25, Kernel 2.6.26-2 Amd, Apache 2, Postfix Debian 4, as in Etch, which has been obsolete for 8 years now? Yes, yes you absolutely need to upgrade. -- |_|O|_| Registered Linux user #585947 |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281
Re: Hibernation does not work after upgrade to Stretch
On Tue, 12 Jun 2018, Piotr wrote: Dear all, Recently I upgraded my Jessie to Stretch and since then I do not have working hibernation. When I do hibernate-disk, then it seems to be making a memory snapshot, but when I restart I gets a hang up with a black screen or reboot (depends on which kernel version I use). Already tried with 4.16.0-0.bpo.2-686-pae, 4.16.0-0.bpo.1-686-pae and with linux-image-3.16.0-5-686-pae. How should I debug this issue and fix it? No idea. Killing some idle time with backport kernel stretch hibernation site:debian.org at a search engine eventually led me to this 2007 document, which looks interesting: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt I have not yet read it in full, (and so, obviously) have never used it myself. -- It's gotten to the point where I get immediately suspicious whenever anybody starts talking about "civility," "tone," or as Iowa Public Radio touts itself, "with no shouting." Oh thank heavens, waving my fan to cool myself from those torrid opinions. twitter.com/bluntedpurpose/status/1001567312057651201
Hardware decoding of video not working in VLC
My machine is a ThinkPad W550s, with an i7-5500U CPU and Intel HD
Graphics 5500. Hardware decoding of video works fine with mpv (using
vaapi), but not with vlc:
mpv without hardware decoding:
$ time mpv Rogue\ One\ -\ A\ Star\ Wars\ Story\ -\ Trailer.mp4
Playing: Rogue One - A Star Wars Story - Trailer.mp4
[ffmpeg/demuxer] mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2: stream 0, timescale not set
(+) Video --vid=1 (*) (h264)
Video --vid=2 [P] (mjpeg)
(+) Audio --aid=1 --alang=eng (*) (aac)
...
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz stereo 2ch float
VO: [opengl] 1920x816 yuv420p
AV: 00:02:06 / 00:02:06 (99%) A-V: 0.000
...
real2m6.828s
user0m36.432s
sys 0m1.356s
mpv with hardware decoding:
$ time mpv --hwdec=vaapi Rogue\ One\ -\ A\ Star\ Wars\ Story\ -\ Trailer.mp4
Playing: Rogue One - A Star Wars Story - Trailer.mp4
[ffmpeg/demuxer] mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2: stream 0, timescale not set
(+) Video --vid=1 (*) (h264)
Video --vid=2 [P] (mjpeg)
(+) Audio --aid=1 --alang=eng (*) (aac)
...
libva info: VA-API version 0.39.4
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_39
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz stereo 2ch float
Using hardware decoding (vaapi).
VO: [opengl] 1920x816 vaapi
AV: 00:02:06 / 00:02:06 (99%) A-V: 0.000
...
real2m7.019s
user0m3.224s
sys 0m1.608s
[Note the decrease in CPU usage ("user").]
With vlc, the CPU usage remains roughly the same (high), regardless
of whether hardware decoding is enabled or not.
vlc without hardware decoding:
$ time vlc Rogue\ One\ -\ A\ Star\ Wars\ Story\ -\ Trailer.mp4
VLC media player 3.0.2 Vetinari (revision 3.0.2-0-gd7b653cf14)
[55aad94521a0] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use
'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
QObject::~QObject: Timers cannot be stopped from another thread
real2m20.461s
user0m43.796s
sys 0m1.292s
vlc with hardware decoding:
$ time vlc --avcodec-hw vaapi Rogue\ One\ -\ A\ Star\ Wars\ Story\ -\
Trailer.mp4
VLC media player 3.0.2 Vetinari (revision 3.0.2-0-gd7b653cf14)
[5586746a81a0] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use
'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
QObject::~QObject: Timers cannot be stopped from another thread
real2m10.894s
user0m43.276s
sys 0m1.808s
I've tried other values for --avcodec, as well as enabling hardware
acceleration from the GUI, to no avail - I get no reduction in CPU
usage.
The Arch Wiki indeed claims that hardware decoding only works with mpv,
and not with vlc:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mpv#Hardware_decoding
But vlc's own documentation claims that hardware decoding should work:
https://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_GPU_Decoding
Trying to figure out hardware decoding is pretty frustrating - the web
seems full of inconsistent, outdated, and just plain wrong information.
Any ideas?
Celejar
