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See Night

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Registered: 2024-09-22

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MPV: video stutter / frame drops after long screen-off

Hi everyone,

I'm running Arch Linux and recently updated to Gnome 50. I've encountered a strange issue:

After my monitor has been turned off for a long time, when I turn it back on and try to play videos (using mpv), I see heavy frame drops and stuttering. While this is happening, nvtop shows that GPU utilization drops significantly.

If I switch windows (e.g. Alt+Tab to another app and back), the problem temporarily goes away, but it comes back again after a while.

This issue only occurs with the MPV player. When I use VLC or a web-based player (e.g. YouTube in Firefox/Chrome), everything works fine. Furthermore, I have attempted to enable/disable hardware acceleration, but it didn't work.

I initially thought it was related to AMD FreeSync, but after further testing I found that the real cause is simply the long screen-off state. Disabling FreeSync does not actually solve it – instead, simply power-cycling the monitor (turning it off and on again) or reboot system fixes the issue, without changing any settings.

System details:

    CPU: AMD R5 7500F

    RAM: 16G×2 6000 CL36

    Motherboard: Maxsun Terminator B650M WiFi

    GPU: AMD Radeon 9060XT 16G

    Mesa version: 26.0.4-1

    Mpv version: v0.41.0

Can anyone help me solve this problem?

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by See Night (2026-04-16 03:30:49)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: MPV: video stutter / frame drops after long screen-off

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 6#p2294566 ?
(Though afaiu that was nvidia specific?)

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