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Wasn't there friction when using nvidia's proprietary drivers, as Nvidia's video acceleration depends on VDPAU compared to Intel/AMD using VA-API?

The only reason I haven't made the full change for Linux yet is because I watch a lot of Twitch.tv and the CPU usage hits 45-50% on average even at 720p.

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Have you tried the streamlink gui client? You can play streams in mpv/vlc/whatever that way

I thought they're trying to actively block it as it allowed people to watch without ads.

Pihole + uBlock Origin, I never see ads on Twitch or YouTube. I only see sponsors and affiliates in YT (and I guess Twitch as well, not watching much Twitch tbh). Which usually don't work in EU the one time I am interested (LTT...)

youtube-dl (and forks) work with twitch (using mpv). I've never understood why people use streamlink instead.

Can youtube-dl work with live?

Last I checked, ytdl when used standalone has poor behavior with live: it will fetch the live stream, but if ytdl gets up to "current time", it considers the live stream complete instead of continuing to capture it in real-time.

This may or may not affect using mpv's ytdl integration (where mpv internally calls ytdl to obtain a stream).

Yes, I tried to make video accel work but didn't succeed. There's a vaapi driver for vdpau, but it crashes when I try using it. In some firefox issue there was someone mentioning that video accel needs dmabuf, which needs gbm, so the 490 driver might solve the issue.

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