[vlc-devel] Why VLC can't use H.264 HW codec?

[Chih-Wei Huang]

Hi all,
I'm testing VLC on Android-x86 7.1-rc1.
I noticed a strange issue. That is,
VLC won't use the system hardware codec
to play an H.264 encoded video file.
I guess it uses the SW codec in itself.
No matter what settings I changed in the app.
I confirmed this by checking logcat and CPU load.
The CPU load on playing H.264 files by VLC
is much higher than other players like MX Player.
On the other hand, HEVC (H.265) or VP9
encoded files don't have such an issue.

Any idea?


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Chih-Wei
Android-x86 project
http://www.android-x86.org