Solved Video playback performance tips

hakova

hakova

Hi all,

I built a fully up-to-date FreeBSD 13.1 media pc on a Lenovo Thinkpad m900 tiny host. I chose xfce as the DE, due to its lean nature, added Kodi on top and installed google chrome browser in a linux jail using this script to be able to watch Netflix and Amazon Prime. Everything works as expected with a small problem: video playback is not smooth even for 720P, let alone 1080 or 4K. This is true for watching videos from the browser, or Kodi, which are locally stored files. I thought expecting smooth 4K playback may not be realistic from this hardware, but poor performance with lower resolution was something I didn't expect. There are 2 cores/4 threads on this CPU (i5 6500T) and they are 15-30% used each while video playback, and their temperature stays around 25-30 degrees Celcius max. Just to experiment, I used a Debian 11 live USB to compare the performance and saw that the hardware was actually able to play 4K videos smoothly, as well as the lower resolution ones (naturally). I really would like to keep this machine operating on FreeBSD, but I won't be able to do that unless I can optimize the video playback performance. Do you have any tips to help make this happen please?

Thanks!
 
Thank you so much for quick reply. I attached my /var/log/Xorg.0.log with the server/domain name redacted at the bottom of this message.

And here is the output of xvinfo:

Code: 
X-Video Extension version 2.2
screen #0
 no adaptors present
 

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Thank you so much for your help. I am sorry for my stupidity. I didn't originally installed drm-kmod package thinking that the Intel graphics driver would be installed without it. Where did I get that from? Who knows?

Thank you so much for the amazing guidance!
 
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