Hello. I’ve installed Tumbleweed and my videos play fine, and streaming works well. Is it advisable to enable VA-API graphics acceleration via Packman for playing multimedia content in Tumbleweed? Thank you

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[–] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

My OpenSUSE experience is limited, but while you’re waiting for a response here is my understanding:

If it’s working and you value stability, don’t enable it. It can cause occasional conflicts.

But if you want best efficiency (and maybe battery life, for example), you could enable it.

I personally will not enable it unless there is a need. It’s potentially one more thing to micro manage.

Now if I was in my 20s again and had the time and passion for reinstalling the system, I would absolutely enable all the things and find out the limits, pass them, break stuff and reinstall with the new knowledge :)

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