Vdpau is an opensource library and api allows to video programs to offload portions of the video decoding process and video postprocessing to the gpu videohardware. It happens with and without having libvainteldriver or libvdpau va gl both from rpmfusion installed. Hardware video acceleration makes it possible for the video card to decodeencode video, thus offloading the cpu and saving power. Video decode and presentation api for unix vdpau is a royaltyfree application. How to enable vdpau acceleration for accelerated flash video. The vdpau interface is to be implemented by device drivers, such as nvidia geforce driver, nouveau, amdgpu, to offer enduser software, such as vlc media player or gstreamer, a standardized access to available video decompression acceleration hardware in the form of applicationspecific integrated circuit asic blocks on graphics processing units gpu, such as nvidias purevideo or amds unified video decoder and make use of it. So, asis, libvdpauvagl would be good for someone who has software with vdpau but without vaapi a rarity. You may need to visit the va viewer software page to view the documents available on this page. It uses opengl under the hood to accelerate drawing, scaling, and if available vaapi to accelerate video decoding. Using vlc media player without libvdpau va gl works fine but gives some warnings when starting to play a file. Many applications can use vdpau to accelerate portions of the video decoding process and video postprocessing to the gpu video hardware.
Fix hardware decoding with libvdpau va gl fix crashes with libvpx use libass without caching dialog video output. Adobe flash player hardware acceleration on intel graphics. Contribute to development by creating an account on github. I pulled in libvainteldriver from epel and gstreamer1vaapi package from nux, but it doesnt make any difference with or without them, no video acceleration at all.
Enable hardware acceleration on intel graphics cards in ubuntu. How to install adobe flash player using ubuntu linux terminal. It is, however, possible to use intels vaapi drivers by way of libvdpauvagl. This page may contain links to pages andor documents outside the department of veterans affairs domain.
Installing libvdpau va gl solved it for me, but it was a software solution. Gentoo forums view topic vaapi acceleration issues solved. It provides an interface to video decode acceleration and presentation hardware present in modern gpus. Intel currently support their own rival api called va api. Contribute to i rinatlibvdpau vagl development by creating an account on github.
It is opensource produced initially by nvidia themselves and supported on most of their current graphics cards. Maybe pat didnt find it worth maintaining because he thinks so, too. The package should be updated to follow the last version of debian policy standardsversion 4. If i remove libvdpau va gl both players can play videos in fullscreen reasonably tearingfree, but at least vlc reports. Fortunately, theres an opensource project called libvdpau va gl, which is a vdpau driver that uses opengl under the hood to accelerate drawing and scaling, and va api if available to accelerate video decoding. Looks like ffmpeg isnt actually a dependency of this package, so we can probably remove it. Nvidia hopes these gpu designers will support the open source vdpau library and provide drivers with vdpau acceleration by mentioning example names of hardware specific drivers for intel and ati. Vdpau is the video decode and presentation api for unix. Otherwise i have vlc and some codec support packages from rpmfusion.
List of package versions for project libvdpau va gl in all repositories. The vdpau interface is to be implemented by device drivers, such as nvidia geforce driver, nouveau, amdgpu, to offer enduser software, such as vlc media player or gstreamer, a standardized access to available video decompression acceleration hardware in the form of applicationspecific integrated circuit asic blocks on graphics processing units gpu, such as nvidias purevideo or amds. Mar 19, 2017 vdpau driver with openglvaapi backend. The vdpau interface is to be implemented by device drivers, such as nvidia geforce driver, nouveau, amdgpu, to offer enduser software, such as vlc media player or gstreamer, a standardized access to available video decompression acceleration hardware in the form of applicationspecific integrated circuit asic blocks on graphics processing units gpu, such as nvidias purevideo or amds unified video. The package is severely out of date with respect to the debian policy. The following binary packages are built from this source package. Vdpau driver with openglvaapi backend libvdpauvagl1dbgsym. Xvba vaapi support linux amd hardware decode steam.
How do i enable vdpau hardware video acceleration support for. Vdpau can also be used as a backend for the vaapi and openmax il which themselves covers a subset of vdpaus capabilities. Vdpau video decode and presentation api for unix is an open source library libvdpau and api originally designed by nvidia for its geforce 8 series and later gpu hardware targeted at the x window system this. Vdpau is a programming interface api to allow offloading of graphics rendering to the graphics chipset rather than handling by the cpu itself. Vdpau allows video programs to access the specialized video decoding asic. I have installed vdpau from software manager without the. Vdpau can also be used as a backend for vaapi and openmax il, which themselves cover a subset of the vdpau capabilities. Hi, ive just upgraded from fedora23 to fedora24 and now videolan doesnt work with streaming live video from my hdhomerun device.
You can return to the main page for this software by clicking here. Throwing a wrapper library like libvdpau va gl into the mix screws this up royally. This is the version history page for videolan vlc, showing the last 20 software updates. Fix hardware decoding with libvdpau va gl fix crashes with libvpx. Contribute to i rinatlibvdpauva gl development by creating an account on github. Nvidia hopes other gpu designers will make their products compatible with the open source vdpau library and provide drivers with vdpau acceleration by mentioning example names of hardware specific drivers for intel and ati. Many applications can use vdpau to accelerate portions of the video decoding process and video. The problem is that the selected or default video output driver was vdpau, and no one working on the mplayer packages and software cares enough about having the software package work with your configuration of hardware and software. Unfortunately, there is no such library for many graphic chipsets. Hardware video acceleration makes it possible for the video card to decodeencode video, thus offloading the cpu and saving power there are several ways to achieve this on linux. How to develop a defensive plan for your opensource software project. Enable hardware acceleration on intel graphics cards in. May 02, 20 libvdpau va gl this quite new project finally provides va api backend for vdpau. Configure your software to use vaapi, switch to better software if your current player wont use vaapi, or live with software rendering.
So, asis, libvdpau va gl would be good for someone who has software with vdpau but without vaapi a rarity. You may find it in your distributions repository eg. Aur package repositories click here to return to the package base details page. Introduction to libvdpau the libvdpau package contains a library which implements vdpau vdpau video decode and presentation api for unix is an open source library libvdpau and api originally designed by nvidia for its geforce 8 series and later gpu hardware targeted at the x window system this vdpau api allows video programs to offload portions of the video decoding process and video. The vdpau interface is to be implemented by device drivers, such as nvidia geforce driver, nouveau, amdgpu, to offer enduser software, such as vlc media player or gstreamer, a standardized access to available video decompression acceleration hardware in the form of applicationspecific integrated circuit asic blocks on graphics processing units gpu, such as nvidias. Some applications also support va api but many of them, including adobe flash player, dont. Fix resume where you left off fix infinite recursion in the customize dialog fix size when switching tofrom the minimal. Configure your software to use va api, switch to better software if your current player wont use va api, or live with software rendering. Its not answering your original question, but im guessing that because youre trying to use a vdpau driver with a vaapi backend, you may find this useful particularly the section about mplayer. Fix hardware decoding with libvdpauvagl fix crashes with libvpx.
Oct 18, 2019 it is, however, possible to use intels va api drivers by way of libvdpau va gl. Jan 16, 2015 in this guide we will see how to enable the vdpau hardware acceleration in flash player on ubuntu and derivatives for any nvidia, intel and amd gpu. These are annotated as shown below in the content of the page. Some applications also support va api but many of them, including adobe flash player. Debian details of source package libvdpauvagl in buster. I have discovered it only recently, but so far everything works just fine. Software vdpau backend library initialized libva info. This tutorial is going to show you how to enable hardware acceleration on intel graphics cards using vdpau driver.
Video decode and presentation api for unix libraries vdpau video decode and presentation api for unix is an open source library libvdpau and api designed by nvidia originally for its geforce 8 series and later gpu hardware, targeted at the x window system on unix operatingsystems including linux, freebsd, and solaris. Introduction to libvdpau va gl the libvdpau va gl package contains a library which implements the vdpau library. Contribute to irinatlibvdpauvagl development by creating an account on github. Since the adobe flash player plugins are only available in official adobe yum repositories, we need to first enable the adobe yum repository. It uses opengl under the hood to accelerate drawing and scaling and va api if available to accelerate video decoding. May 23, 20 libvdpau va gl this quite new project finally provides va api backend for vdpau. Video acceleration api va api is a specification and open source library to provide both hardware accelerated video encoding and decoding, developed by intel.
Just to make clear for others with such problem, the only one package that wasnt on my system libvdpau va gl is placed in overlay x11. May 01, 2018 install adobe flash player 28 on centos 7. If vdpau available, cpu usage can be significantly lower. Introduction to libvdpau va gl the libvdpau va gl package contains the vdpau driver for hardware that supports vaapi this package is known to build and work properly using an lfs7.
How do i enable vdpau hardware video acceleration support. Like i said above, hardware video decode is very fragile, the entire chain from the decoder hardware to the final display needs to be perfect. I have a computer with an intel 1st generation core i5 cpu and igpu. Hi, i only now managed to follow your tips and it finally work now. Vaapi acceleration issues solved gentoo forums view topic. There were some occasional spikes when using libvdpau va gl, but usually it stayed around those values which is a really great improvement.
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