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Let's say I am currently playing a video in VLC. How do I find out if VLC is using hardware (GPU) rendering, or decoding, at this moment?

This question is not about enabling using the GPU.

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You can install Process Explorer (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653)

In Process Explorer find vlc.exe playing a video file, right click and choose Properties.... Click GPU Graph. Top graph should display GPU usage.

Try enabling and disabling GPU video decoding in VLC and see the graph.

More GPU usage - means VLC decoding video using GPU.

Because you need to restart VLC to apply changes - you should open properties of actual vlc.exe instance.

VLC GPU Usage panel

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