This is a short follow-up on Ubuntu 22.04 on the HP Victus [UVC]
Hardware support is just as good/bad as with Ubuntu 22.04, so all findings from [UVC] apply here, too. The display manager is still X11, I have not tried Wayland.
Video hardware acceleration with VLC and SMPlayer snap installations now works, but requires a bit of fiddling – the default settings will use software decoding. VLC requires that both video output and hardware decoding are set to VDPAU. SMPlayer requires that the output driver is set to VAAPI and harware decoding set to nvdec-copy.
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[UVC] Ubuntu 22.04 on the HP Victus
https://blog.georgovassilis.com/2023/04/27/ubuntu-22-04-on-the-hp-victus/
George's Techblog 