Exactly! Sauces please. (I’ll have some hot chilli).
I’ve found Wayland pretty much flawless with regard to media playback, in the year-plus I’ve been exclusively using it. But I guess this might be somewhat hardware-dependent.
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This is the white elephant in the room, I think.
Ignoring for a moment that I use a generally more performant system than the OP… I also use KDE on Wayland.
The frame-dropping that the OP describes is something I’ve never seen, and something I’ve not seen commonly attributed to Wayland.
Is it possible that Wayland is receiving the blame when other hardware-specific (and/or Internet related) causes might be in play?
I believe this is more likely, though it’s also interesting that the issue seems more obvious in Wayland.
The workaround (use X11 instead) seems to work for the OP.
XFCE was suggested, and might be a worthwhile (and more lightweight) alternative. If I recall correctly, Wayland will be introduced with XFCE 4.20 (the current is 4.19, I think), so the OP could arguably persist with X11 until that happens.
We can’t always satisfy your wants. We can only offer what we see as possible solutions or workarounds.
Your issue with frame-dropping is rather generic; considering it’s also via your browser, it could be caused by a range of factors outside the control of Manjaro.
Video issues in a local environment (played on VLC for example) are likely much easier for others to diagnose.
That said, have you tried resetting your browser(s) to the factory default settings, and tweaking progressively to see if that might make any difference?
I wonder if the OP has tried the Allow Screen Tearing option I suggested in post 9?
Also worth checking the internet speeds. This can be used for a quick check:
wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest.py | python
— I used this with an alias in ~/.bashrc but found some time back that speedtest can also be installed as a package, if you want to use it regularly.
inxi data shows system is using CPU governor powersave and running at 800 MHz
I suggest change governor to performance
sudo cpupower frequency-set --governor performance
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Or just click on the battery icon in the tray. And select performance. Does work when plugged in. But what to do when plugged out? Any better schedulers? I want to tweak the kernel. My cpu should run with 1.1-3.3GHZ. I don’t want to either run it with full power or low power. I want to run it at ideally 1.7GHZ 4C4T. Enough battery life and alright performance under balanced mode.
But your suggestion is nice.
Here are a few comments/questions that you might have missed or opted not to respond to:
Are there any BIOS options (profiles perhaps) that might be used to enhance your general performance?
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cpu-benchmark.org - intel-pentium-silver-n6000 shows data for CPU and GPU:
CPU Frequency - 1.10 GHz
Turbo (1 Core) - 3.30 GHz
Turbo (All Cores) - 2.50 GHz
GPU Frequency - 0.35 GHz
GPU (Turbo) - 0.85 GHz
But hardware manufacturers can underclock systems to improve battery life
or overclock systems to improve performance
notebookcheck.net - Intel-Pentium-Silver-N6000-Processor-Benchmarks-and-Specs
The Asus Vivobook 13 Slate is among the fastest systems built around the N6000 that we know of, thanks to the long-term CPU power limit of 10 W. It can be more than 20% faster in CPU-bound workloads than the slowest system featuring the same chip in our database, as of August 2023.
Like nearly all other N-class Intel processors, the Pentium N6000 has a default TDP of 6 W (also known as the long-term power limit). This is low and thus good enough for passively cooled tablets, laptops, mini-PCs.
To see more information about CPU clock-speeds and scaling governors:
sudo cpupower -c all frequency-info
CPU frequency scaling - Scaling governors - ArchWiki
CPU frequency scaling - Intel performance and energy bias hint - ArchWiki
Mine was overclocked when I used to be on windows.
One more workaround I found was hyprland. But it took me 10 days to customize it and add hundreds of animations and decorations. Manjaro should release a hyprland spin. It is very hard to customize. But it was well worth it. I will switch to manjaro unstable I think. Or even arch.
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If this is the OP’s final resolution to the issue, perhaps this thread should now be closed.
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