VLC Lite with minimum CPU load?

[cpm1a+_]

i want to use VLC on the other computer in my country house, a VERY old one (Win XP), for WATCHING YOUTUBE ONLY
my idea is to remove everything that is not needed for this purpose from the vlc-3.0.17.4 directory to make VLC load faster and (MAIN REASON) play youtube with less CPU usage (now its uacceptable even with very low definition setting of 240 lines)

which files in vlc-3.0.17.4 directory should i leave in place (dont delete)?
or maybe someone already tried this and can share his vlc lite pakage with me for me to use it as example?
or should i just switch to some older VLC version?
any other ideas?
swithing to some other player is definitely unacceptable for me
thanks

[Lotesdelere]

VLC will only use what is needed. So it doesn't matter if you have 10 or 100 DLLs on your drive because only the necessary ones will be loaded in memory.

On XP you should force VLC to use Direct3D9:
Tools -> Preferences -> Video
Output = Direct3D9
Tools -> Preferences -> Input/Codecs
Hardware accelerated decoding = DXVA 2.0

Save, exit and restart VLC for the changes to take effect.

[cpm1a+_]

thanks for answering
"Hardware accelerated decoding" is grayed out...
?

[grey_rat]

DXVA2 only Vista+

[Lotesdelere]

DXVA2 only Vista+

True, my mistake. So no hardware acceleration for VLC 3.x on Windows XP.
Maybe version 2.x could use DXVA1, I don't remember TBH.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

There is not much to disable in terms of CPU or memory usage. You can run VLC headless from the CLI, but that will save more memory than CPU.

Certainly for disk space you can remove unused localisation and then unused plugins.

[cpm1a+_]

There is not much to disable in terms of CPU or memory usage. You can run VLC headless from the CLI, but that will save more memory than CPU.

Certainly for disk space you can remove unused localisation and then unused plugins.

OK, maybe i just should switch from 3.0.17.4 to some older VLC version with _less_ CPU usage? which one?

[Lotesdelere]

I don't know what is making you thinking that older versions of VLC will use less CPU. Yes, hardware acceleration will do it if you want to run it on Windows XP.
So feel free to browse and test any version you want:
https://get.videolan.org/vlc/

But let's make it clear that you won't get any support for older versions.