[vlc] VLC and VAAPI on Linux

[Jean-Paul Saman]

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 9:59 PM, Grant <emailgrant at gmail.com> wrote:

> >> 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?

Your build should have installed:
modules/codec/libvaapi_plugin.so

Kind regards
Jean-Paul Saman

>
> - Grant
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