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Hey jlaham.

They already know about this but it seems that there are problems or incompatibilities. I can't use VLC during the daytime because I need my battery and I don't like to carry my charger around.

So this is really important. I hope the developers find a way to implement VDA decoder.

I just tried out a nightly build and it works fine and it runs on 30% CPU usage without the need of tinkering around in the settings. ;) Which one did you try? vlc-2.1.0-x86_64-20120224-0114.zip 24-Feb-2012 01:14 27M This one. Still looking for a nightly build containing hardware acceleration, thou...

Hey guys. I know you are busy, but I think a lot of people would like to have this feature in VLC as Mac remains the last OS where hardware acceleration isn't supported. In 2010 Apple released information to VDA video decoder module. And since then only Plex and XBMC integrated this into their playe...

I didn't notice much difference though I'm not sure if there is noticeable difference at all. The one thing that might happen is that audio stutters or tiny bits are left out as much as I understand. But if you are on a Mac you only have 3 choices: - Play your videos with Quicktime 10 and Perian, wh...

Yes, you found the right menu. Just use "Linear".

Yea, thank you very much!

Maybe this would be a nice feature for a future version:
Some kind of battery saving mode or something like that.

Something where you just have to make one or two clicks to activate it.

Yes.
I had about 30% with 1.x.x.

Yes, I can confirm that.

With Zero Order Hold I get the best results which vary between 25-30% load.

Yea, this helped. Thank you!
Now I have under 30% CPU usage most of the time. So the CPU usage change between VLC 1.xx and 2.0 is just a matter of sound quality, is that right?

@Jean Baptiste:
As I mentioned above I already deleted both files, but I have slightly higher CPU usage as with the previous version. I will try to use the linear profile.

Do I get a lesser quality with this profile?

Can you recommend something I could try? Maybe if I completely remove VLC and reinstall new.

Should I only drag the App into the trash bin or are there any hidden pref files I should delete by hand?

Yes, right. Deleting the first file helped the most -> about 10% fewer CPU usage.
Deleting the second file helped a little -> about 3-5% fewer CPU usage.

Deleting both I am back at the average CPU usage of the previous version of VLC.

It jumps around, between 30% and 40%. It seems to stay around 30% more often than before. What are those plugins for? Is this a bug?

There is no such file:

libspeex_plugin.dylib and libspeex_resampler_plugin.dylib, but no such with dsp.

Hey!

I deleted the file and this solved the problem. Now I have 35-40% CPU usage. Thank you.

I tried several video files and formats and noticed that the new version has a significant higher cpu usage than the previous version. Can someone else look at this? I had CPU usage around 35% with the old version, which was my main reason to use VLC because of its very low power consumption. Now on...