Graphics, sound and multimedia • RPi 5: MPV dropping frames

I struggle to make MPV play back video smoothly.

• Video is hevc 1920x1080 60 fps, 8 bit
• Raspberry pi OS (Trixie) with wayland/labwc.
• mpv v0.40.0, installed via apt

High number of dropped frames, noticeable stutters.
CPU load for MPV process around 50%

$ mpv --vo=gpu-next demo_h265.mp4
● Video --vid=1 (hevc 1920x1080 60 fps) [default]
Using hardware decoding (drm-copy).
VO: [gpu-next] 1920x1080 yuv420p
V: 00:00:19 / 00:00:20 (100%) Dropped: 557
Exiting... (End of file)

Any help appreciated

Statistics: Posted by krix — Thu Nov 20, 2025 7:36 am

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