Video outside player (Ubuntu Linux 17.10/Wayland)

[rvm]

In the next version smplayer will use xv by default on wayland, so hopefufly the problem will be fixed.

[regulator]

thanks appreciate that fix, its a good start.

The next issue though is XV can't handle high quality/high bitrate files, it goes all choppy. selecting other options mean the videos play smooth but outside the player again lol

[rvm]

Have you tried to increase the threads for decoding and or enabling hardware decoding in preferences -> performance?

[regulator]

Yep didn't help unfortunately

[rvm]

Try this: go to preferences, advanced, mplayer/mpv, and type this in the options field:
--gpu-context=x11

Select gpu as video output, Does it work for you?

[regulator]

Hey as I posted on the bug report, I haven't done thorough testing but using that gpu and x11 setting the player seems to work fine even with high bitrate files. thanks for that.

The next bug I need to raise is on wayland the screensaver will start during playback

[miku84]

Hi All,

I tried the same -gpu-context=x11 settings on KDE Plasma Manjaro, but it failed with the following message:

Error parsing option gpu-context (option parameter could not be parsed)
Setting commandline option --gpu-context=x11 failed.
Exiting... (Fatal error)

About the screensaver issue, regulator wrote above: is it already know issue, or a new issue is needed for that?
I think there may be a workaround to use mpv command to inhibit the screensaver.

Thanks.