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VLC Lite with minimum CPU load?
Posted: 30 Jun 2022 12:45
by 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
Re: VLC Lite with minimum CPU load?
Posted: 30 Jun 2022 14:24
by 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.
Re: VLC Lite with minimum CPU load?
Posted: 30 Jun 2022 14:51
by cpm1a+_
thanks for answering
"Hardware accelerated decoding" is grayed out...
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Re: VLC Lite with minimum CPU load?
Posted: 30 Jun 2022 18:39
by grey_rat
DXVA2 only Vista+
Re: VLC Lite with minimum CPU load?
Posted: 01 Jul 2022 09:44
by 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.
Re: VLC Lite with minimum CPU load?
Posted: 01 Jul 2022 20:21
by 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.
Re: VLC Lite with minimum CPU load?
Posted: 12 Aug 2022 13:52
by 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?
Re: VLC Lite with minimum CPU load?
Posted: 13 Aug 2022 10:11
by 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.