[Havoc]

As a side note, learned today that I've been running basically zero hardware acceleration for video on linux despite having a respectable GPU. It's all been CPU and I didn't realize.

nvidia-smi dmon

is the linux command (for nvidia) - column "dec" tells you whether there is hw decode happening. This will work both for browser (youtube) and video player (mpv etc). I needed to make active changes on both to get it to actually hit the gpu. Don't assume you've got hw accel just because it is smooth

[temp0826]

Some linux distros (e.g. fedora) don't include hw decoding for licensing reasons. I decided I wanted all the latest goodies at some point and ended up duct taping together a copr repo with mesa/ffmpeg/mpv (latest from git) with all the hw stuff enabled (though I'm probably breaking some of their rules by doing so...I've labeled it in such a way that I hope nobody comes across it and decides to use it). Anyways, my main goal with it all was to extend battery life on my laptop while watching things, it makes a pretty big difference to use proper codecs.