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How to enable HW acceleration in Celluloid video player in Linux Mint 20? I have this graphics card in my Dell laptop: GPU: NVIDIA, GeForce GTX 1060, Max-Q Design, 6 GB GDDR5/X VRAM) which has the basic specification as follows, and should be capable of handling hardware decoding of a high-resolution video (I hope): ![GeForce GTX 1060 specs]( * * * I really like the simplicity of my current video player: Celluloid, but in Linux Mint 20.0 **it does not use hardware acceleration by default**. This is highly annoying, and also I think a CPU waste, the fan goes to a loud mode while playing a **60GiB 4K (UHD) MKV movie** as an example, CPU while playing this one: ![60GiB 4K \(UHD\) MKV movie playback](

Celluloid I found, is based on MPV, thus I found relevant HW acceleration options on MPV help. I read `nvdec` and `nvdec-copy` options both seem relevant, but it actually can auto-detect the `nvdec-copy` when in Celluloid GUI preferences you put this line:


hwdec=auto-safe


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![Celluloid hwdec=auto-safe](

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After this adjustment, my CPU cooler fan got a lot easier on ears, as proven by CPU usage:

![CPU usage with Nvidia HW acceleration turned on](

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Credits:

_Hardware Video Acceleration_ section of Linux Mint official blog article.

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**Check for HW acceleration from inside the Celluloid player:**

You can press `i` while playing to confirm what acceleration got enabled if any.

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