Is it possible for QubesOS to not feel choppy, like you're not using a virtual machine?

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Improve video playback performance including YouTube (ytfzf)

Video playback using mpv Also available as a simple SaltStack recipe with didactic dom0 step-by-step at: ( brunoschroeder/qubes-salt-video-playback - Codeberg.org ). This guide will show you how to install the mpv player and use it with maximum performance (in own tests I saw video performance improvements of up to 600% !). It will assume that you are using debian-12 as a template (other templates should also work, however) and that you play videos in DVMs; I recommend looking into this soluti…

VLC video playback CPU usage improvement

Hi, You certainly noticed playing a video in VLC draws a lot of CPU. There is a setting that could be changed to drastically reduce the CPU usage. In my test, I reduced the CPU usage from 150-200% to 10-40%, this makes a huge difference. I used VLC from Flatpak. In VLC: click on “Tools” in the menu Select “Preferences” (you could just do Ctrl+P) Click on the tab “Video” In the field “output”, select “X11 video output (XCB)” Save If you started to play a video, you need to stop and start aga…

HD video in VMs choppy

Hello all! Sorry if this is a dumb question, but is there something I should’ve done while installing/configureting Qubes to have some kind of video decoding acceleration present in VMs? As of right now, trying to play any kind of video in any kind of VM results for a choppy/laggy playback for me. Low bitrate 1080p/30 youtube/livestream videos are somewhat watchable, but anything more HQ, higher res, 60 fps etc and it just drops a ton of frames and distorts audio. Even the “”“acceptable”"" low …