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The first Ryzen Z1 Mini PC has been benchmarked, reaches 40W (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (7 children)

I own a Mini PC with Intel N100 and it can reach 40W even when I just watch YouTube. I'm pretty happy with it though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

IIRC chrome still uses the CPU to decode VP9/AV1, you need to use firefox for full hardware decode.

Or use h264ify

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

On an old nuc I'm using, Firefox with YouTube is a sluggish experience and hardware decide refuses to work. A lot of folks are finding the same, likely Google pushing us away from using Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Freetube might be an option for you

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Any NUC has H264 decode on Linux, give Linux Mint a try?

I think tho in about:config you need to set a vaapi flag to enabled.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

That's really helpful, I'll try that thank you. Yes the decode works fine in Chromium. It's not that, it's Google shenanigans.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Wait, is it the same with Edge? My laptop iGPU (Iris Xe) has VP9 and AV1 hardware decoding, does that extension forces hardware decoding?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

No, hardware decoding of VP9 and AV1 works great on Chrome; I see it working with two Nvidia GPUs and a Radeon 780M

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