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Thanks for your reply bro, quicktime and all other Apple apps suck ! VLC FTW, I hope you can improve on CPU usage of VLC with HW acceleration. you are our only hope. I use VLC to watch Twitch HLS streams using Livestreamer, I have written a guide on how to do that if anyone is interested : http://ww...

Hello Friends, I have VLC 2.1.5 installed on my Macbook Pro Retina Mid 2012. When I play h264 videos, the energy impact of VLC goes up to 40-50 and laptop becomes quite hot while playing same videos by Quicktime has almost no energy impact. I believe VLC is not using hardware acceleration to decode ...