I have an old HP Pavilion p6-2100 with an AMD A4 A4-3420 CPU and I am trying to dedicate it to Plex and Stremio. When I use it with Stremio the CPU is pegged and there is a lot of lag between the video and the sound. Would updating it with a new video card resolve this?

  • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Hehe, all good.

    I was wondering why your CPU is at 100% and if you are actually using using your integrated graphics to play the video.

    I am speculating whether you even need to buy a GPU, perhaps it is possible to enable your player to explicitly use integrated graphics to play video content.

    Maybe check the player settings, something about hardware acceleration settings.

    Hopefully, that makes a bit more sense. :)

    • floppingfish@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      3 days ago

      It does make more sense, thanks. I will check the player settings tonight, especially around hardware acceleration. Thanks again.

      • floppingfish@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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        2 days ago

        I looked into the settings, located and turned on hardware acceleration. I tried watching a show this morning and it worked. I left the show going while I did some chores and, unfortunately, when I came back to it the program was locked up. I’ll try it again tonight (and look into what ‘hardware acceleration’ means ) :-)

        Thanks!