[vlc] Re: Re : Use the GPU

[galenz at zinkconsulting.com]

Your graphics card isn't likely to make the video look any better.  
The only real reason you'd use the video card is if you can't play  
the video properly (i.e. it skips or stutters because your CPU isn't  
fast enough) and hence need to reduce CPU usage - this is hardware  
acceleration.

Look at the video output options under VLC's preferences. If you're  
using Linux, make sure you have your video drivers setup properly -  
if you you don't, or your card doesn't support the modes you're  
trying to output, VLC will give errors or simply quit.

Under Linux, see if you can use XvMC or OpenGL video output. XvMC is  
fastest, as it uses hardware motion compensation for a performance  
increase. OpenGL (if I recall) only uses your card for colorspace  
conversion.

As for Windows, I don't use Windows, but I believe the basic idea is  
the same - try different video output modules in the preferences.

-Galen

On Sep 8, 2006, at 4:04 PM, Joe-la-Frite wrote:

> I think the render will be nicer with the hardware than with an  
> external software. Maybe I'm wrong...
> I'm using Windows XP (and Linux Kubuntu).
> Thank you.
>
> Envoyé le : Jeudi, 7 Septembre 2006, 5h33mn 27s
>
> Depends on the platform. VLC doesn't support the full hardware  
> capabilities under all circumstances.
>
> What platform are you using? What/why are you trying to use your  
> hardware?
>
> -Galen
>
> On Sep 7, 2006, at 4:32 AM, Joe-la-Frite wrote:
>
>> Hi everybody.
>>
>> Can someone tell me how configure VLC to use the hardware of my  
>> graphic card to deal with the video ?
>>
>> Thanks a lot.
>>
>> Byron
>>
>
>
>

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