Maybe pat didnt find it worth maintaining because he thinks so, too. Video acceleration api va api is a specification and open source library to provide both hardware accelerated video encoding and decoding, developed by intel. This is the version history page for videolan vlc, showing the last 20 software updates. Debian details of source package libvdpauvagl in buster. So, asis, libvdpauvagl would be good for someone who has software with vdpau but without vaapi a rarity. The following binary packages are built from this source package. 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. Vdpau allows video programs to access the specialized video decoding asic. Vdpau is a programming interface api to allow offloading of graphics rendering to the graphics chipset rather than handling by the cpu itself. How to develop a defensive plan for your opensource software project. Vdpau is the video decode and presentation api for unix. Oct 18, 2019 it is, however, possible to use intels va api drivers by way of libvdpau va gl. 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.
Many applications can use vdpau to accelerate portions of the video decoding process and video postprocessing to the gpu video hardware. Hardware video acceleration makes it possible for the video card to decodeencode video, thus offloading the cpu and saving power. Otherwise i have vlc and some codec support packages from rpmfusion. 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. 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. Looks like ffmpeg isnt actually a dependency of this package, so we can probably remove it. May 01, 2018 install adobe flash player 28 on centos 7. Contribute to i rinatlibvdpau vagl development by creating an account on github. 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. Throwing a wrapper library like libvdpau va gl into the mix screws this up royally. If i remove libvdpau va gl both players can play videos in fullscreen reasonably tearingfree, but at least vlc reports.
It happens with and without having libvainteldriver or libvdpau va gl both from rpmfusion installed. Contribute to development by creating an account on github. Aur package repositories click here to return to the package base details page. Download libvdpau va gl1 packages for debian, mageia, ubuntu. Vdpau driver with openglvaapi backend libvdpauvagl1dbgsym. I have installed vdpau from software manager without the. 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. Contribute to i rinatlibvdpauva gl 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. Configure your software to use vaapi, switch to better software if your current player wont use vaapi, or live with software rendering. Intel currently support their own rival api called va api. 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. 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.
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. It is, however, possible to use intels vaapi drivers by way of libvdpauvagl. These are annotated as shown below in the content of the page. 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. It uses opengl under the hood to accelerate drawing and scaling and va api if available to accelerate video decoding. Installing libvdpau va gl solved it for me, but it was a software solution. Gentoo forums view topic vaapi acceleration issues.
Since the adobe flash player plugins are only available in official adobe yum repositories, we need to first enable the adobe yum repository. It provides an interface to video decode acceleration and presentation hardware present in modern gpus. Unfortunately, there is no such library for many graphic chipsets. You may find it in your distributions repository eg. Vdpau can also be used as a backend for vaapi and openmax il, which themselves cover a subset of the vdpau capabilities. Fix hardware decoding with libvdpau va gl fix crashes with libvpx use libass without caching dialog video output. 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. 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. You may need to visit the va viewer software page to view the documents available on this page. Adobe flash player hardware acceleration on intel graphics.
Configure your software to use va api, switch to better software if your current player wont use va api, or live with software rendering. The package should be updated to follow the last version of debian policy standardsversion 4. Contribute to irinatlibvdpauvagl development by creating an account on github. Vdpau can also be used as a backend for the vaapi and openmax il which themselves covers a subset of vdpaus capabilities. How to enable vdpau acceleration for accelerated flash video. It is opensource produced initially by nvidia themselves and supported on most of their current graphics cards. How to install adobe flash player using ubuntu linux terminal. The package is severely out of date with respect to the debian policy. How do i enable vdpau hardware video acceleration support. Some applications also support va api but many of them, including adobe flash player. May 23, 20 libvdpau va gl this quite new project finally provides va api backend for vdpau. 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. List of package versions for project libvdpau va gl in all repositories.
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. 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. 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. Gentoo forums view topic vaapi acceleration issues solved. May 02, 20 libvdpau va gl this quite new project finally provides va api backend for vdpau. How do i enable vdpau hardware video acceleration support for. Hi, i only now managed to follow your tips and it finally work now. Many applications can use vdpau to accelerate portions of the video decoding process and video.
This page may contain links to pages andor documents outside the department of veterans affairs domain. Mar 19, 2017 vdpau driver with openglvaapi backend. If vdpau available, cpu usage can be significantly lower. This tutorial is going to show you how to enable hardware acceleration on intel graphics cards using vdpau driver. Introduction to libvdpau va gl the libvdpau va gl package contains a library which implements the vdpau library. You can return to the main page for this software by clicking here.
Xvba vaapi support linux amd hardware decode steam. It uses opengl under the hood to accelerate drawing, scaling, and if available vaapi to accelerate video decoding. I have a computer with an intel 1st generation core i5 cpu and igpu. Hi, ive just upgraded from fedora23 to fedora24 and now videolan doesnt work with streaming live video from my hdhomerun device. Enable hardware acceleration on intel graphics cards in. Some applications also support va api but many of them, including adobe flash player, dont. Video decode and presentation api for unix vdpau is a royaltyfree application. Fix hardware decoding with libvdpau va gl fix crashes with libvpx. Using vlc media player without libvdpau va gl works fine but gives some warnings when starting to play a file. 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.
Fix hardware decoding with libvdpauvagl fix crashes with libvpx. So, asis, libvdpau va gl would be good for someone who has software with vdpau but without vaapi a rarity. Software vdpau backend library initialized libva info. Enable hardware acceleration on intel graphics cards in ubuntu. I have discovered it only recently, but so far everything works just fine. 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. Fix resume where you left off fix infinite recursion in the customize dialog fix size when switching tofrom the minimal. Vaapi acceleration issues solved gentoo forums view topic.
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