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kaangiray26

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Registered: 2021-09-04

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[SOLVED] Fixing Slow Gnome Performance While Playing a Video

I've noticed that workspace switches had 1.5 second delays while there was a video playing. 
Not just that but everything else was kinda laggy and slow while playing videos in mpv, vlc, etc. 
I'm also using my integrated intel graphics.

For the record, I have animations disabled and use only a few extensions including vertical overview.

So, I solved the problem by installing the following packages:

intel-media-driver
libva-intel-driver
vulkan-intel

As you can guess from the packages, it was related to hardware decoding. By installing libva-intel-driver and by putting the following line in my mpv config, I was once again able to run the user interface smoothly:

hwdec=auto-copy

Hope this helps someone.

Last edited by kaangiray26 (2021-09-04 17:58:48)