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I run Linux Mint Mate on a 10 year old laptop. Everything works fine, but watching YouTube makes my wireless USB dongle mouse stutter a LOT. Basically if CPU us
by throwawaylaptop 1y ago
I run Linux Mint Mate on a 10 year old laptop. Everything works fine, but watching YouTube makes my wireless USB dongle mouse stutter a LOT. Basically if CPU usage goes up, mouse goes to hell.
Are you telling me that for some reason it's not using any hardware acceleration available while watching YouTube? How do I fix it?
- dismalaf 1y agoEasiest way is to use Chrome or a Chrome based browser since they bundle codecs with the browser. If you're using Firefox, need to make sure you have the codecs. I know nothing about Mint specifically though to know if they'd automatically install codecs or not.
- lights0123 1y agoYou specifically don't want to use the bundled codecs since those would be CPU decode only.
- throwawaylaptop 1y agoInteresting. I'll look into that more.
- dismalaf 1y agoStraight up false. I have both Chrome and Vivaldi installed on Linux, both have hardware video decoding on OOTB... You check it by putting chrome://gpu in the address bar.
- throwawaylaptop 1y agoIm using Brave and it seems the enable hardware acceleration box is checked.
- olyjohn 1y agoIt's probably the 2.4GHz WiFi transmitter interfering with the 2.4GHz mouse transmitter. You probably notice it during YouTube because it's constantly downloading. Try a wired mouse.
- throwawaylaptop 1y agoInteresting theory. The wired mouse is trouble free, but I figured that's because of a better sampling rate and less overhead over all. Maybe I'll try a bluetooth mouse or some other frequency, or the laptop on fired Ethernet to see if the theory pans out.
- Sohcahtoa82 1y ago> Maybe I'll try a bluetooth mouse Bluetooth is also 2.4 Ghz.
- lostmsu 1y agoOr just switch to 5GHz or 6GHz range.