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 h264. how can I enable this ? I have already set Preferences -> Input/Codecs -> Hardware Acceleration to VDA.
Is there any other settings needed to be made to enable hardware decoding ?
UPDATE : I installed VLC 2.2.0 which comes with a disable option for "Preferences -> Input/Codecs -> Hardware Acceleration", when I disabled this option "Energy impact" went up to 70-80, with this option enabled, "Energy impact" is about 30, while Quick time "Energy impact" for same video is around 5. meaning VLC uses 6x more energy to decode same video even with hardware acceleration. I blame Apple for this, they are known to break or limit third party apps intentionally to create the illusion of Apple superiority. Every App I've tried works better on Windows except those provided by Apple directly. Time to ditch the ship guys.
Regards