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=== FFmpeg trunk ===
 
=== FFmpeg trunk ===
Get the latest FFmpeg trunk as of 2010-January. Compile it with vaapi hwaccel support.
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Get the latest FFmpeg trunk as of 2010-January.
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Compile it with vaapi hwaccel support.
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  ./configure --enable-gpl --enable-postproc --prefix=/path/to/ --enable-shared --enable-vaapi
 
  ./configure --enable-gpl --enable-postproc --prefix=/path/to/ --enable-shared --enable-vaapi
 
  make
 
  make
 
  make install
 
  make install
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Copy vaapi.h to the includes.
  
 
=== VLC ===
 
=== VLC ===

Revision as of 14:59, 8 January 2010

Introduction

This page is about compiling VLC with support of GPU acceleration on Linux.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Acceleration_API

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/vaapi

Before starting

libva

Install libva from http://www.splitted-desktop.com/~gbeauchesne/libva/ . We do not support other libraries than the one from Mr. Beauchesne.

Drivers

nVidia

http://www.splitted-desktop.com/~gbeauchesne/vdpau-video/ for nVidia.

ATI

http://www.splitted-desktop.com/~gbeauchesne/xvba-video/ for ATI.

Run

vainfo

To check if everything works.

FFmpeg trunk

Get the latest FFmpeg trunk as of 2010-January. Compile it with vaapi hwaccel support.

./configure --enable-gpl --enable-postproc --prefix=/path/to/ --enable-shared --enable-vaapi
make
make install

Copy vaapi.h to the includes.

VLC

Get VLC from Git. Get the necessary external libraries (on debian/*buntu: apt-get build-dep vlc)

./bootstrap
./configure
make