Re: VLC and VAAPI on Linux
Grant <[email protected]> Thu, 11 Sep 2014 12:02:23 -0700
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.video.videolan.vlc.general |
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| Message-ID | <CAN0CFw2vu3ZON+FNNmWRh1y=pns-QKXawHZAhigEy-n9guw1Nw@mail.gmail.com> |
>> >> >> Can vlc use vaapi? >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > Yes vlc can. Of course your Linux distribution should have libva >> >> > packaged >> >> > and enabled in the necessary software for VLC to take benefit of >> >> > vaapi >> >> > accelleration. >> >> >> >> >> >> I'm using Gentoo and I have libva installed but no acceleration in >> >> vlc. What could I be missing? >> > >> > >> > Did you install libva headerfiles? And rebuild vlc afterwards? >> >> >> I have libva-1.3.1 installed and I have rebuilt vlc afterwards. >> >> >> > Your build should have installed: >> > modules/codec/libvaapi_plugin.so >> >> >> Gentoo installed this: >> >> /usr/lib64/vlc/plugins/codec/libvaapi_plugin.so >> >> Do I need to select it in vlc config somehow? > > > Yes you need to: > > Use for vlc-2.2.x: > --avcodec-hw=vaapi > > Use for vlc-2.1.x > --avcodec-hw Thank you, that works after upgrading from libva-intel-driver-1.3.0 to 1.3.2. Can I set that in the Preferences somewhere? - Grant ______________________________________________________ vlc mailing list To unsubscribe or modify your subscription options: https://mailman.videolan.org/listinfo/vlc