[vlc] VLC and VAAPI on Linux

[Jean-Paul Saman]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 3:03 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?
>
>
> I have libva-1.3.1 installed and I have rebuilt vlc afterwards.
>
>
> > Your build should have installed:
> > modules/codec/libvaapi_plugin.so
>
>
> Gentoo installed this:
>
> /usr/lib64/vlc/plugins/codec/libvaapi_plugin.so
>
> Do I need to select it in vlc config somehow?
>

Yes you need to:

Use for vlc-2.2.x:
--avcodec-hw=vaapi

Use for vlc-2.1.x
--avcodec-hw


> - Grant
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Kind regards,

Jean-Paul Saman
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