[dhh]

Hype took about 2.2 seconds to open its window on an NVIDIA GB10, whatever the deck held. Nearly all of it was engine.load(Main.qml) creating the MediaPlayer, AudioOutput, and VideoOutput: any one of them starts Qt Multimedia's FFmpeg backend, which calls av_hwdevice_ctx_create (vkCreateDevice, cuInit) on the GUI thread to probe hardware decoders.

The player and its output now live in a Loader that turns on the first time a video slide is selected and stays on. Decks without video never start the backend, and decks with video keep hardware decoding (turning the probe off with QT_FFMPEG_DECODING_HW_DEVICE_TYPES would also have removed the delay, but at that cost). The window now opens in about 0.4 seconds.

This is the same trap other Omarchy apps have hit, so the omarchy-app skill gets a rule about it too.

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Confidence Score: 5/5

[Medium impact] The PR appears safe to merge; no actionable issues were found.

Summary

Defers creating the video player until a video slide is first selected.

• The video player loads when a deck first selects a video slide.

Diagram

%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart TD
    A[Window opens or slide changes] --> B{Selected slide has video?}
    B -->|First video| C[Activate video loader]
    C --> D[Create player and outputs]
    B -->|No video or already loaded| E{Player exists?}
    D --> E
    E -->|No| F[Leave player unloaded]
    E -->|Yes| G[Sync source when needed]
    G --> H{Presenting with autoplay?}
    H -->|Yes| I[Play video]
    H -->|No| J[Wait for playback control]

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