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In the next version smplayer will use xv by default on wayland, so hopefufly the problem will be fixed.

thanks appreciate that fix, its a good start.

The next issue though is XV can't handle high quality/high bitrate files, it goes all choppy. selecting other options mean the videos play smooth but outside the player again lol

Have you tried to increase the threads for decoding and or enabling hardware decoding in preferences -> performance?

Yep didn't help unfortunately

Try this: go to preferences, advanced, mplayer/mpv, and type this in the options field:
--gpu-context=x11

Select gpu as video output, Does it work for you?

Hey as I posted on the bug report, I haven't done thorough testing but using that gpu and x11 setting the player seems to work fine even with high bitrate files. thanks for that.

The next bug I need to raise is on wayland the screensaver will start during playback

Hi All,

I tried the same -gpu-context=x11 settings on KDE Plasma Manjaro, but it failed with the following message:

Error parsing option gpu-context (option parameter could not be parsed)
Setting commandline option --gpu-context=x11 failed.
Exiting... (Fatal error)

About the screensaver issue, regulator wrote above: is it already know issue, or a new issue is needed for that?
I think there may be a workaround to use mpv command to inhibit the screensaver.

Thanks.