[LAU] Re: mpv video frontend woes with i915 on Debian

* Peter P. <peterparker-97jfqw80gc5Wk0Htik3J/[email protected]> [2025-10-17 19:49]:
[...]
> With the above successful config mpv nevertheless prints the warning
>  [vo/gpu/opengl] Suspected software renderer or indirect context.
> which I don't really understand or which might be due to my hardware(?),
> but at least things are working. 
> 
> If there is any way to lower cpu usage in fullscreen further, it would
> be great to find out.

Replying to myself here for reference after having red the full info at
https://wiki.debian.org/HardwareVideoAcceleration#Intel

Running the --hwdec switch without specifying any option made mpv select
vaapi-copy by itself, which is successfully using hardware decoding,
indicated by mpv printing
	Using hardware decoding (vaapi-copy)
and also verifiable with intel-gpu-top and giving a slightly lower cpu
usage in fullscreen.

best, P
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