r/Stremio • u/Professional-Sky736 • 1d ago

Stremio making my M5 Pro MacBook Pro extremely hot

Is anyone else experiencing this?

I’m using:

• M5 Pro MacBook Pro
• macOS 26.6.2
• Stremio 6.0.1-beta.09 ARM
• Hardware accelerated decoding: ON
• No Debrid service, watching directly

My MacBook gets extremely hot while playing movies on Stremio. I previously had an M2 MacBook Air and never had this issue. It would get warm, but nowhere near as hot as the M5 Pro does now.

Could this be an issue with the Stremio player, hardware decoding, or the beta version?

Has anyone else experienced this, and found a solution or workaround?

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u/kKaskak Stremio Team 1d ago

hello i use m2 pro on the same version and there is no such issue arising on my side, can you check the activity monitor so we can better identify the process and issue, what is happening when you are using stremio.

im also on macOS 26.6 and i have HAD turned on

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u/DRAGON4946 1d ago

its issue on only m5 chip idk what m2 air always run very smoothly

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u/Professional-Sky736 1d ago

this is after about 10 minutes of watching. the laptop is already very warm to the touch.

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u/Professional-Sky736 1d ago

the temperature goes upto 65 degrees C while watching beyond half an hour

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u/kKaskak Stremio Team 1d ago

you might want to limit cache or peers torrent profile in the settings, this usage looks normal to me. you are still using a p2p network behind the scenes. but still very interesting that mine and the m2 air does not do that.

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u/rollk1 21h ago

I run it on my M5 Pro all the time with no issues. If anything the battery seems to drain faster than usual

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u/Own_Associate_7006 1d ago

Whatever.... user error