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Now that I have access to the machine affected, I tried the workaround you suggested. For the record, in Preferences (All) > Input / Codecs > Video codecs > FFmpeg, I changed the value of Threads from 0 (auto) to 1. In this way, reproducing the 1080p H264 video now consumes around 7% CPU. I'll mark ...

Ok, fine. I'll try to open a bug report on RPMFusion and see if they are willing to change the compile-time options.

Thank you again for the attention you gave me.

Ok, thank you for your help. I think that the vlc package pulled ffmpeg as a dependency, is it possible to change something in Preferences in order to switch to libav, which I have already installed? Or is it a problem of the package and I should open a bug report?

I examined the log files generated trying to play the 1080p video and it seems that the module that handles the decoding is "avcodec". Thus, I examined the debug messages for that module and I found the following ones: avcodec debug: available hardware decoder output format 109 (vdpau) avc...

First of all, thank you for your answer. I'll remove the "libvdpau-va-gl" package so that auto defaults to something other than "VDPAU output" resolving the video size problem. However, in terms of CPU load, it seems that there isn't any difference between any of the settings for...

Hello, I have installed VLC 3.0.0-git Vetinari (revision 2b82c9f) (version provided by RPMFusion) on a clean Fedora 24 installation but I am not able to get hardware acceleration working. I'm using a Haswell laptop with integrated Intel graphics and a dedicated Nvidia card, which is currently deacti...