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0 pointsthrowawaylaptop8mo ago0 comments

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?

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olyjohn8mo ago

It'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.

throwawaylaptopOP8mo ago

Interesting 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.

Sohcahtoa828mo ago

> Maybe I'll try a bluetooth mouse

Bluetooth is also 2.4 Ghz.

lostmsu8mo ago

Or just switch to 5GHz or 6GHz range.

dismalaf8mo ago

Easiest 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.

lights01238mo ago

You specifically don't want to use the bundled codecs since those would be CPU decode only.

dismalaf8mo ago

Straight 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.

throwawaylaptopOP8mo ago

Interesting. I'll look into that more.

throwawaylaptopOP8mo ago

Im using Brave and it seems the enable hardware acceleration box is checked.

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olyjohn8mo ago

It'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.

throwawaylaptopOP8mo ago

Sohcahtoa828mo ago

> Maybe I'll try a bluetooth mouse

Bluetooth is also 2.4 Ghz.

lostmsu8mo ago

Or just switch to 5GHz or 6GHz range.

dismalaf8mo ago

lights01238mo ago

You specifically don't want to use the bundled codecs since those would be CPU decode only.

dismalaf8mo ago

Straight 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.

throwawaylaptopOP8mo ago

Interesting. I'll look into that more.

throwawaylaptopOP8mo ago

Im using Brave and it seems the enable hardware acceleration box is checked.

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