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Robert Mader

Just watched Sintel in 4K using display hardware YUV->RGB conversion and scaling on Mutter with - no 3D GPU usage (no shaders, no compositing) and also very littly CPU usage (video decoding done by VAAPI) and thus very power efficient.

We are finally getting there - unleash the power of :P

If you're interested in the technical progress or want to try: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/
github.com/mpv-player/mpv/pull

GitLabwayland: Implement direct scanout for cropped and scaled surfaces (!3177) · Merge requests · GNOME / mutter · GitLabUntil now we only supported direct scanout to the primary plane if the buffer size perfectly matched the display size. Since display controllers usually support scaling and cropping...