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Stremio / stremio-shell

🐚 Qt5-based shell for Stremio; compile this to run the desktop app
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Add Apple Silicon Support #356

Open kokroo opened 1 year ago

kokroo commented 1 year ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/Stremio/comments/15gijoq/stremio_for_apple_silicon_m1_m2_etc/

@_pajarito was able to compile Stremio for Apple Silicon, and I think we can do the same. One thing to note here is that it will save a lot of battery life, but we should also make sure that hardware video decoding is enabled. That will be the biggest battery life saver.

zisra commented 1 year ago

yes it's really laggy on my m2 laptop

kokroo commented 1 year ago

yes it's really laggy on my m2 laptop

It's laggy and also consumes too much battery. HDR content plays but the HDR effect is not present. I'm not complaining though, it's open source and free, this is just a humble request to the project developers.

TRtomasz commented 1 year ago

What do you mean by laggy? I had M1 macbook pro for almost 3 years now and there is nothing 'laggy' it plays 4k content without issues. Be sure to enable hw accelerated decoding in the settings.

kokroo commented 1 year ago

What do you mean by laggy? I had M1 macbook pro for almost 3 years now and there is nothing 'laggy' it plays 4k content without issues. Be sure to enable hw accelerated decoding in the settings.

I have the M1 Pro and it does lag sometimes. Hardware acceleration is on but it's not really supported on macOS including HDR. That toggle doesn't change anything, try for yourself. And this application is a battery hog, no doubt.

zisra commented 1 year ago

What do you mean by laggy? I had M1 macbook pro for almost 3 years now and there is nothing 'laggy' it plays 4k content without issues. Be sure to enable hw accelerated decoding in the settings.

I can drop a recording some other time, but pressing every button has significant delay and animations are choppy

edde746 commented 1 year ago

Seems like the main issue preventing a build for arm64 is libmpv, which wouldn't be an issue if Stremio wasn't using 6 year old binaries of it. As said in #326, switching to meson would make it significantly easier to manage cross-platform builds.

HVR88 commented 2 months ago

I thought this had to be a joke. 4 years Apple Silicon has been available. Even MS is going full-steam ahead with ARM on Windows now.

sanskar350 commented 3 weeks ago

+1 for Apple silicon please. Normal version takes up a lot of CPU/Memory usage and is not battery efficient + it lags sometimes. It is usable but not a very good exp.