John Stebbins

> Using a rest API would be more work than IPC but you could add in functionality so that 3rd party apps/wrappers can ping it for a JSON response on...

CPU utilization is dependent of a lot of things, but generally I/O is *not* an issue. Mostly it boils down to some algorithms not being easily parallelizable or the effort...

> Then it would be okay to disable preview generation by the underlying system, to speed up init? No, previews are used to determine source characteristics that are required to...

Well, LinGUI has had that preview since day 1 and nobody ever complained until it showed up in the WinGUI. Windows users are apparently freakier that Linux users :wink: But...

LinGui shows a large version of the HB logo

To be clear, this issue is about disabling **display** of the preview for privacy reasons. This issue is not about speeding anything up. The previews are still generated even if...

I'll have to break out my laptop and try to reproduce this. But this looks suspicious ``` [22:35:00] * video track [22:35:00] + decoder: h264_qsv 8-bit (yuv420p) ``` I have...

@galinart the CLI flatpak doesn't support the QSV plugin. Only the GUI flatpak does. The GUI flatpak includes the CLI which can be run by `flatpak run --command=HandBrakeCLI fr.handbrake.ghb `...

Sure. I'm pretty busy lately. But I can find some time for it.

Were any tests performed with the updated plugin?