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Using a retina Macbook Pro with both an Intel and nvidia GPU, which does VLC use when hardware decoding is enabled? For battery reasons I'd prefer to use the Intel GPU. Thanks

This is an implementation detail of the operation system. VLC provides raw data and gets decoded data back. What happens in between, is not known and can't be influenced. So, we have to keep fingers crossed that Apple did a clever implementation here.

This is an implementation detail of the operation system. VLC provides raw data and gets decoded data back. What happens in between, is not known and can't be influenced. So, we have to keep fingers crossed that Apple did a clever implementation here.

So VLC hardware decoding works on most GFX cards? I have an nVIDIA 320M

"[The] Video Decode Acceleration framework [is] available on Mac OS X v10.6.3 and later with Mac models equipped with the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, GeForce 320M, GeForce GT 330M, ATI HD Radeon GFX, Intel HD Graphics and others."

So I guess, your card is supported