View Issue Details
| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0018995 | MediaMonkey 5 | Other | public | 2022-04-22 19:30 | 2022-06-27 21:07 |
| Reporter | Ludek | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | urgent | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | feedback | Resolution | open | ||
| Product Version | 5.0 | ||||
| Target Version | 5.0.4 | Fixed in Version | 5.0.4 | ||
| Summary | 0018995: Consider adding HW acceleration switch to Options > Performance | ||||
| Description | Currently Chromium with enabled HW acceleration has better performance, but can lead to various issues in specific user environments. 1) Undocking laptop from a USB dock station can cause freeze in certain environments (e.g. user from ticket # 4076, similar to https://superuser.com/questions/830162/chrome-browser-freezes-on-undocking ) 2) MM5 can fail to run in certain environments (issue 0018609 and related KB article https://www.mediamonkey.com/support/knowledge-base/mediamonkey-install-config/mediamonkey-wont-open/ ) 3) Maximizing MM5 window while YouTube video is playing in background can cause freeze in certain environments (issue 0018957) Workaround is to use the MediaMonkey_noGPU.bat that runs MM5 without HW acceleration (more intensive CPU usage, less intensive GPU usage) With above in mind I wonder whether we shouldn't add new checkbox to Options > Performance [..] Use hardware acceleration when available (better performance) and probably maybe disabled by default to prevent from possible issues described above ? | ||||
| Additional Information | Another issue appearing only with HW acceleration is [Ticket # 4431] | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Fixed in build | 2656 | ||||
|
|
Assigned to Rusty for review + possible wording suggestions. |
|
|
BTW: As discussed with Petr offline, Chromium has ability to run GPU process separatelly, so ideal solution would be to auto-switch to SW rendering whenever the GPU process crashes. In that case the switch might be no longer needed, Petr is solving this in course of 0018957 |
|
|
Based on what I've seen so far, the idea seems to make sense. As we aren't able to fix all GPU-related issues, we could possibly try to include this as a feature. |
|
|
Added the config to Options > Performance [x] Use hardware acceleration when available (requires restart) Added in build 5.0.4.2656 |
