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 …
Sounds like you could be using the default driver, did you configure xorg to use the intel hardware?
I have no problems with video playback on my T480.
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…
@OvalZero What’s unclear about the question? Obviously Firefox in a default App qube doesn’t play videos smoothly. I have the same problem on my Librem 15. Full HD quality. Adding more CPU cores to the VM can help.
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