<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Grant <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emailgrant@gmail.com" target="_blank">emailgrant@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="">>> >> Can vlc use vaapi?<br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> > Yes vlc can. Of course your Linux distribution should have libva<br>
>> > packaged<br>
>> > and enabled in the necessary software for VLC to take benefit of vaapi<br>
>> > accelleration.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> I'm using Gentoo and I have libva installed but no acceleration in<br>
>> vlc. What could I be missing?<br>
><br>
><br>
> Did you install libva headerfiles? And rebuild vlc afterwards?<br>
<br>
<br>
</span>I have libva-1.3.1 installed and I have rebuilt vlc afterwards.<br>
<span class=""><br>
<br>
> Your build should have installed:<br>
> modules/codec/libvaapi_plugin.so<br>
<br>
<br>
</span>Gentoo installed this:<br>
<br>
/usr/lib64/vlc/plugins/codec/libvaapi_plugin.so<br>
<br>
Do I need to select it in vlc config somehow?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes you need to:<br><br>Use for vlc-2.2.x:<br>--avcodec-hw=vaapi<br> <br></div><div>Use for vlc-2.1.x<br></div><div>--avcodec-hw<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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- Grant<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Kind regards,<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Jean-Paul Saman<br></div></div>