[karkinious]

hello everybody nice to join the forum.
I have an issue with Macbook M1 Air Sonoma running kodi 21/20/19 when a video is playing or paused and move to different desktop CPU goes to 80-90% and i can feel laptop getting hot. normally is around 20% when playing, idle is abt 4% tried apple silicon version as well as intel version 19/20/21 different skins nothing worked.

[quayrd]

I have the same issue. Looks like there was a solution for previous releases but its happening again in the latest release.

[LogiMou]

Hey, I've same issue. I've tried several versions of Kodi for arm and also intel processors but the result is still the same. When I'm playing video CPU usage is above 60-70% and it looks a bit high to me. Nevertheless, I've found one workaround where you can use different external player, I used VLC and now the CPU usage is about 15-20%. Here is a link where you can find tutorial: https://gist.github.com/mrPrateek95/3d8f...3c00cd27e8 

But it would be great if there'll be some solution on that, because I still think that the CPU utilization should be a way less if you are playing 1080p video.
Specs:
 - Kodi 21
 - MacBook Pro M2

[poluxen]

This is an i9 intel mbp.  Playing 4k hdr hvec >5gigs averages 22%-40%

When I switch to another user kodi handles this poorly either with cpu spike and full speed fans, or it crashes prompting current user "ignore report restart"