Video acceleration api vaapi is a specification and open source library to provide both hardware accelerated video encoding and decoding, developed by intel. Fresh player plugin was updated recently with support for hardware accelerated video decoding via vaapi and vdpau, along with video capture support alsa, jack, pulseaudio and other improvements. This package enables support for vdpau for some gallium drivers. The va api is to be implemented by device drivers to offer enduser software, such as vlc media player or gstreamer, access to available video acceleration hardware, such as purevideo. The amdgpupro driver can be downloaded from the following links. It provides an interface to video decode acceleration and presentation hardware present in modern gpus.
Video acceleration api va api is a specification and open source library to provide both hardware accelerated video encoding and decoding, developed by intel video decode and presentation api for unix vdpau is. Video decode and presentation api for unix vdpau ist eine offene programmierschnittstelle. All packages providing a vdpau use flag 18 medialibsavidemuxcore. This would also typically include decoding problems in the codecs themselves e. They both can use vdpau, but since there is no vdpau available on intel chips, they fall back to different drawing techniques. I like the extra interlacing capabilities of vdpau and the. Briefly, this is the vdpau driver with vaapiopengl backend there are applications exists that can use vdpau. Vdpau is designed so that multiple implementations can be used without application changes. But libva vdpau driver is a wrapper when vlc used to be vaapi only, libva vdpau driver allowed you to get hardware acceleration in it with the nvidia proprietary driver.
Vdpau video decode and presentation api for unixnvidiageforce 8gpu. To download the sourcecode for the revised libva, mplayer vaapi, and the vdpau vaapi backend, visit. How do i enable vdpau hardware video acceleration support for. Help enabling h264 decoding support through hardware using. Linux howto use vaapi hw acceleration on amd zacate. Solved hardware accelerated video vdpauvaapi using. Vaapidrivervdpau download for linux rpm download vaapidrivervdpau linux packages for mageia, openmandriva, pclinuxos. Vdpau is also supported by nvidia the vdpau interface is to be implemented by device drivers, such as nvidia geforce driver, nouveau, amdgpu, to offer enduser software, such as. To download the sourcecode for the revised libva, mplayervaapi, and the vdpau vaapi backend, visit.
Video acceleration api vaapi is a royaltyfree api that allows applications such as vlc media player or gstreamer to use hardware video acceleration capabilities, usually provided by the graphics processing unit gpu. Vdpau is the video decode and presentation api for unix. I moved from mplayer to mplayer2 with my old system, because mplayer would not play fine with vdpau eosd subtitles being fubared. It lets any linux, solaris, and freebsd system play files, including highly complex h. It is implemented by the free and opensource library libva, combined with a hardwarespecific driver, usually provided together with the gpu driver. Intel and ati currently offer no support for vdpau. It uses a bsdstyle ports system called portage for package management. Unfortunately, it seems like cheap minipcs with nvidia video are gone with the ion.
Libvavdpaudriver download apk, eopkg, rpm, txz, xz, zst. Vdpau video decode and presentation api for unix lets nvidia and amdati uvd cards play video with hardware acceleration. S3 graphics added support for vdpau to the linux drivers of its chrome 400 video cards since version 14. Video decode and presentation api for unix vdpau is a royaltyfree application programming interface api as well as its implementation as free and opensource library libvdpau distributed under the mit license. They both can use vdpau, but since there is no vdpau available on. Mythfrontend setup video playback screen 38 select vaapi normal profile in list hit next until you are back out to the main screen try playing back a recording or another video and you should notice a decrease in cpu usage. Video acceleration api va api is a royaltyfree api as well as its implementation as free and opensource library libva distributed under the mit license. Activate the appropriate setting through the preferences menu tools preferences inputcodecs hardware accelerated decoding.
How to enable amdgpupros vdpau driver on ubuntu 17. Solved hardware accelerated video vdpauvaapi using mesa. Interface frontends are also available for atis xvba and nvidias vdpau. Hardware accelerated video vdpauvaapi using mesa radeon driver. Video acceleration api is a successor to xvmc, providing partial and full hardware offloading of video decoding. The place to find relevant information on gentoo linux.
This article describes the setup of vdpau video decode and presentation api for unix. The key technology behind this is the use of function pointers and a get proc address style api for all entry points. I have an old graphics card, although it was highend at the time circa late 2007early 2008, an atiamd hd 3870. For problems related to the html 5 media elements and including webm, mp4, mse and eme issues. Xvba is amd technology and is third option in mplayer. You can get around this issue by using xv instead of vdpau. S3 graphics added vdpau to the linux drivers of their chrome 400 video cards. Hardware video acceleration makes it possible for the video card to decodeencode video, thus offloading the cpu and saving power. Jun 18, 2015 fresh player plugin was updated recently with support for hardware accelerated video decoding via vaapi and vdpau, along with video capture support alsa, jack, pulseaudio and other improvements. Gentoo g45gm45 h264 vaapi video decoding on may 2011 intel released g45gm45 h264 vaapi in their g45h264 branch. Mplayer has black or strange colored font for osd and subtitles. The output will show if vdpau driver has been initialized properly two leading ii letters in the sample output above. Nouveau opensource driver supports both vaapi and vdpau. Gentoo is highly configurable and can be customized in ways other distributions can not.
Of course dont set it to vaapi, choose vdpau and the according settings dont have a vdpau machine running with me first decide what functions features you expect from a system. By clicking the download button, you are confirming that you have read and agreed to be bound by the terms and conditions of the end user license agreement eula linked to this note for use of amd proprietary opengl, opencl, and vulkan drivers provided by this download. Debian details of package nvidiavdpaudriver in sid. It also should specify the name of backend driver r300 in the sample output. Fresh player plugin gets hardware accelerated video decoding. Hardware decoding of mpeg1, mpeg2, mpeg4 part 2, h.
For example, vdpau could be hosted on x11, or via direct gpu access. Video acceleration api va api an alternative video acceleration api for linux unix operatingsystem. But libvavdpaudriver is a wrapper when vlc used to be vaapi only, libvavdpaudriver allowed you to get hardware acceleration in it with the nvidia proprietary driver. These libraries provide the video decode and presentation api for unix.
More then one year later they still didnt merge it to master and no one touched that code in the meantime. There also is the pvr branch precompiled vaapi xbmc including pvr. Video decode and presentation api for unix wikipedia. I used mpv as well to test vdpau mpv hwdecvdpau vovdpau mpv hwdecvdpau voopengl i think i only installed libvdpau and then recompiled mesa to get it to work on newer hardware, but im on current. Nowadays vlc supports both vaapi and vdpau, so libvavdpaudriver isnt needed anymore. Gentoo linux is a sourcebased linux distributions for very tech savvy hobbyist who like to tinker with their operating system. All nvidia graphic cards for which the driver implements vdpau are listed in nvidia purevideo. Download libva vdpau driver packages for alpine, arch linux, centos, fedora, freebsd, kaos, mageia, openmandriva, opensuse, pclinuxos, slackware, solus.
How do i enable vdpau hardware video acceleration support. There appears to be an issue with osd and subtitle colors when using vdpau output, which mplayer may be using by default. Introduction to libvdpauvagl the libvdpauvagl package contains the vdpau driver for hardware that supports vaapi this package is known to build and work properly using an lfs7. Video decode and presentation api for unix nvidia driver. Unfortunately, i cant download the stage3 tarball the autobuilds directory. If i hack mesa so vdpau says 51 then 51 will work, 5. Fresh player plugin gets hardware accelerated video. Enable the vdpau acceleration interface for the gallium3d video layer.
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