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I posted this on the Bandicam forum, copying here as it is useful to know. Feedback / Suggestion - Optimise GPU load HDMI Capture Device window Quote Sat Jun 18, 2022 2:36 am Hello Team Bandicam! Thank you for Bandicam. I currently use Bandicam to record my PS5 gameplay along with an ASUS CU4K30 HDMI capture device, it works well without issue. I do not use the Bandicam HDMI capture window to view and play my PS5, I simply hide the window and switch over to my PS5 HDMI port on my screen. However, out of curiosity I was looking at GPU load when the HDMI capture window is hidden and I feel Bandicam could be better optimised to reduce GPU load when the HDMI capture window is hidden and recording. I will demonstrate my findings with screenshots. In the first screenshot, I have Bandicam open, and task manager shows the GPU load at 0%. In the seco...

If the playback of 4K videos is causing your processor fans to spin themselves to bits or the quality of the playback is an annoyingly inconsistent frame skipping mess, this may help you. The default Windows movie player app and alternatives like VLC and smplayer can play videos with hardware decoding but I frequently have playback issues. In search of something that works and is simple, say hello to  mpv.io  a free, open source, and cross-platform media player. Using MPV to playback 4K videos has provided me with the smoothest viewing experience compared to anything I have ever used but there is one small catch. Out of the box it defaults to software decoding (using your CPU), so you need to configure it to take advantage of hardware decoding, i.e, nvidia NVENC. Go to the options and tick a few boxes? Unfortunately not, you have to configure it by way of a text file named mpv.conf. Realistically all this means is using notepad to type a few characters... or since you are here...

If you notice the sound quality when playing a youtube video sounds off and not as good as Windows, I recommend you modify some PulseAudio settings by editing a configuration file with a text editor of your choice, sudo powers required. The file in question is is /etc/pulse/daemon.conf Look for the setting below, ; resample-method = speex-float-1 Uncomment the line by deleting the ; and change the default value from speex-float-1 to sox-vhq. resample-method = soxr-vhq I would also recommend the following, default-sample-rate = 48000 alternate-sample-rate = 48000 Explaining it in more detail No doubt you have seen this recommendation all over the internet. By default Ubuntu 20.04 LTS will set your sound device to run with a sample rate of 48KHz. This is where the setting 'default-sample-rate = 48000' comes in. When you watch a video on youtube through your browser, the audio sample rate from youtube is 44.1KHz (because that is what youtube encodes audio at). Ideally the 'alt...