VLC VAAPI
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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
Compile VLC with vaapi
Patch VLC with http://vlc.pastebin.com/f59445620
Reconfigure VLC.
