[vlc-devel] VDPAU output with OSS driver

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 09:24:45 +0200, Android Jack <jackdroido at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi, and thanks for the reply !
> 
> Before forcing VDPAU as video output, I've already tried leave it to
> default "Automatic" and the option "Accelerated video output (Overlay)"
is
> checked (the old option --ffmpeg-hw is not present anymore), but the
result
> is that, after trying VDPAU it falls-back to xv,

That is as intended. Your VDPAU driver does not support I420 while your
XVideo driver does. Thus rendering through XVideo should be faster (not
necessarily fast enough, but still faster).

If you want to accelerate *decoding*, then it's `vlc --avcodec-hw=any'.

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