Easiest way is to use Chrome or a Chrome based browser since they bundle codecs with the browser. If you're using Firefox, need to make sure you have the codecs. I know nothing about Mint specifically though to know if they'd automatically install codecs or not.

You specifically don't want to use the bundled codecs since those would be CPU decode only.

Interesting. I'll look into that more.

Straight up false. I have both Chrome and Vivaldi installed on Linux, both have hardware video decoding on OOTB...

You check it by putting chrome://gpu in the address bar.

Im using Brave and it seems the enable hardware acceleration box is checked.

It's probably the 2.4GHz WiFi transmitter interfering with the 2.4GHz mouse transmitter. You probably notice it during YouTube because it's constantly downloading. Try a wired mouse.

Interesting theory. The wired mouse is trouble free, but I figured that's because of a better sampling rate and less overhead over all. Maybe I'll try a bluetooth mouse or some other frequency, or the laptop on fired Ethernet to see if the theory pans out.

> Maybe I'll try a bluetooth mouse

Bluetooth is also 2.4 Ghz.

Or just switch to 5GHz or 6GHz range.