smplayer 20.6 ships mpv 0.32, how to reproduce:
you will see that any time part of video window lands outside the screen borders CPU spikes to 100% and video stutters, in fact whole smplayer window starts moving in big jumps
Doesnt happen when downgrading just mpv to 0.29.whatever from 19.10 release
Im happy to report smplayer 21.8.0 with mpv 0.33.0-349-g5304e9fe31 no longer exhibits this issue. This can be closed.