Re: [qubes-users] choice of media player with minimal resources ?

2019-01-13 Thread 799
Hello Am Mo., 14. Jan. 2019, 08:36 hat Ivan Mitev geschrieben: > [...] > Another less obvious reason for not having the laptop's fan constantly > on due to high CPU usage is to avoid clogging the heat sink with > dust/fibers (eg. when you have your laptop lay on a blanket when you're > in bed).

Re: [qubes-users] choice of media player with minimal resources ?

2019-01-13 Thread Ivan Mitev
Hi 799 :) On 1/14/19 9:05 AM, 799 wrote: > Am Mo., 14. Jan. 2019, 08:00 hat Ivan Mitev geschrieben: > >> Hi all, >> >> I'd be interested to know what people use for playing videos in VMs >> (without GPU passthrough). > > > For streaming content I use Google Chrome in a special "Multimedia AppV

Re: [qubes-users] choice of media player with minimal resources ?

2019-01-13 Thread 799
Am Mo., 14. Jan. 2019, 08:00 hat Ivan Mitev geschrieben: > Hi all, > > I'd be interested to know what people use for playing videos in VMs > (without GPU passthrough). For streaming content I use Google Chrome in a special "Multimedia AppVM", which has no other purpose. I rarely have other sou

[qubes-users] choice of media player with minimal resources ?

2019-01-13 Thread Ivan Mitev
Hi all, I'd be interested to know what people use for playing videos in VMs (without GPU passthrough). I've tried mpv, mplayer, vlc, google-chrome and ffmpeg: mpv, vlc and ffmpeg were the worst in terms of CPU usage. google-chrome fared better, while mplayer seemed to consume the least resources.