Give mpv a twirl. At the very least, it has nice stats under the “i” key.
Right now, I’m struggling with “how does my 5ghz 20 core latest gen intel processor manage to drop frames?” Sometimes the answer is just that computers suck 🤷
From what I can tell, most of the time the reason is “the necessary hardware acceleration isn’t enabled/installed” or “the video decode logic seems to only have been tested on Windows”.
Firefox enabled hardware video decoding on Linux only very recently and it’ll only work if you install a bunch of packages that don’t come with every Linux distro.
Without GPU acceleration, everything is done on CPU, and CPU decodes are incredibly slow and inefficient.
I had the same issue. What I found is that when I run gnome or KDE, I don’t get any dropped frames. XFCE, Openbox setups, Cinnamon & Mate on the other hand all had the frame drop issue. I managed to fix it in XFCE through playing around with the compositor settings, no luck in any of the other DEs tho.
Give mpv a twirl. At the very least, it has nice stats under the “i” key.
Right now, I’m struggling with “how does my 5ghz 20 core latest gen intel processor manage to drop frames?” Sometimes the answer is just that computers suck 🤷
From what I can tell, most of the time the reason is “the necessary hardware acceleration isn’t enabled/installed” or “the video decode logic seems to only have been tested on Windows”.
Firefox enabled hardware video decoding on Linux only very recently and it’ll only work if you install a bunch of packages that don’t come with every Linux distro.
Without GPU acceleration, everything is done on CPU, and CPU decodes are incredibly slow and inefficient.
I had the same issue. What I found is that when I run gnome or KDE, I don’t get any dropped frames. XFCE, Openbox setups, Cinnamon & Mate on the other hand all had the frame drop issue. I managed to fix it in XFCE through playing around with the compositor settings, no luck in any of the other DEs tho.