Why does VLC have to use Dedicated Card?

kind of a random question, but I'm using the Cody gfxcarstatus on my Macbook Retina and I try to avoid using my dedicated as much as possible for battery reasons. heat reasons, and just life of the overall laptop. But Why must VLC always use a dedicated card to run? Quicktime seems to handle integrated no problem. I'm going to start using Quicktime over VLC if I can.

Thanks.... More of a question, what other players can play MKV other then VLC? Thanks

 

No idea about the integrated, never noticed tbh, maybe you could change the output module in vlc preferences see if that helps?

You can use quicktime to play mkv I think, you need to get the codec pack called perian.

 

I use gfxCardStatus to lock on the Intel.. and VLC runs fine on it.

The problem is in how OSX decides to do graphics switching and how VLC is coded... its linked against frameworks/apis that OSX flag as always enabled the GPU.

Its easiest to not worry about it and use gfxCarxdStatus to lock the Intel on all the time, then if you do something you know you'll need the GPU, to go turn it on. Can give you hours more battery life too.

 

Try perian, it's a plugin for quicktime that does the same as VLC

 

Except that it's no longer being developed or supported. It stinks because Perian is a great piece of software. Best thing to do for now at least is use GfxCardStatus and lock in the iGPU when using VLC.

 

MplayerX is amazing and it will run on the Intel 4000 .

I was facing the same problem with VLC and battery life on my RMBP and this solved all my problems .