Hahaha yeah, that's why I don't like it.

Still, isn't this bizarre? Over the last couple of decades using Windows and macOS across many machines, I've encountered one time I had to mess with settings like this. That's the time I temporarily disabled hw accel in chrome so I could screenshare and watch a show with someone.

Meanwhile on Linux you gotta configure every app one at a time because sane defaults and auto configuration weren't invented here.

Try watching UHD HDR on intel iGPU without accel, or AV1. MPV also supports vulkan decoders.

Do you know if/why on apple silicon Macs there’s a difference between videotoolbox and videotoolbox-copy ? I thought the SoC memory is shared and that there wouldn’t be a need for copying data from VRAM to RAM.

Just do a quick automatic benchmark surely?

That's never been an issue on Windows or macOS. Apps only use the GPU if it's new enough