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Vaapi is the open-source library and API specification for accelerating video by means of the GPU. It was originally introduced by Intel, but the API is not solely limited to Intel hardware.

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How do I enable hardware accelerated video in VLC with Intel HD 4000 GPU?

I am running Ubuntu 12.10 on a Dell Latitude E5530, and I am unable to get hardware accelerated video decoding running in VLC player. I've ticked the hardware acceleration option in the settings of VLC, installed all libva, libdrm and vaapi related…
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How to enable hardware acceleration of video decoding in mplayer with Intel HD3000 on Vivid?

There used to be a vaapi build of mplayer but it doesn't seem to be maintained any more and doesn't work in Vivid. Default mplayer2 build from the repo uses 40% of CPU during 720p playback. Same as totem. VLC does have some hardware acceleration…
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How to correctly enable/test VA-API on Intel Sandy Bridge?

I would like to know which package I have to install and how to test that is working fine? I know there are many question similar but no one is complete and clear to me
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Intel vaapi : can't play mkv with vlc

I can find why I can't play any mkv file with vlc, it seems there is a drawing error, is there a workaround or something ? I have optimus (intel+nvidia) and i'm using bumblebee with last nvidia driver 358. VLC media player 2.2.1 Terry Pratchett…
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Command line flag for mplayer to use hardware acceleration?

I can make VLC use hardware decoding with vlc --ffmpeg-hw video.mkv Is there an equivalent flag for mplayer?
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How can I get APT to ignore unmet dependencies?

My apt-get is currently complaining about unmet dependencies (and refuses to do anything until I fix them): Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to…
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VAAPI and multiple video cards

I recently got a new (actually, a second-hand, but new to me) Inspiron 5548 with an Intel Core i7-5500U that also has an AMD Radeon R7 M260/M265 card. Everything works fine with my Ubuntu 17.04 (pre-release), but I have a "problem" that was also…
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Problem installing libva (VAAPI), vainfo fails

I'm following a wiki on how to make VLC use the GPU in the Core i3 integrated graphics chipset, but I'm stuck at one of the first steps, installing VAAPI. I installed libva1 and vainfo by using "sudo apt-get install libva1 vainfo", but when I run…
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How do I know whether hardware acceleration is working on VLC?

I'm on Ubuntu 15.10 and I've installed packages related to vaapi shown on this link How do I enable hardware accelerated video in VLC with Intel HD 4000 GPU? I've tried playing a 1080p vid (H264-MPEG-4 AVC). And on gnome-system-monitor I see vlc…
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firefox vaapi acceleration

How can I enable html5 hw acceleration in firefox 38 ? (running on ubuntu 15.04) with vaapi via gstreamer1.0-vaapi (installed). I have intel hd 4600.
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Chrome in Ubuntu 21.10 only achieves video acceleration with VP9, not with H.264, resulting in higher CPU usage

I'm checking with the developers tools, and with VP9 on youtube, I get Vpx decode, but with H264, I get FFMpeg only. I'm launching with the flags: --ignore-gpu-blocklist --use-gl=desktop --enable-features=VaapiVideoDecoder
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Ubuntu 20.10: Firefox 82+, Intel HD 500, Vaapi hardware acceleration

My hardware: Intel® Celeron(R) CPU J3455 @ 1.50GHz × 4 Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 500 (APL 2) 7,4 GiB RAM Ubuntu 20.10 64-bit, X11 According to several articles on the internet, Firefox v81 / 82 enables vaapi hardware video acceleration on Linux by…
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How to get chromium with vaapi on ubuntu 20.10?

is there any way to get chromium with vaapi on ubuntu 20.10?? I've tried snap version from candidate/vaapi channel and it does not work now but it worked about a month or so ago. gpu: intel hd 620
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libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1

I'd like to utilize my old netbook with the help of Kubuntu 20.04 to watch YouTube and write essays through "Google Documents." After the Kubuntu installation, I tried to install chromium by using snap (candidate/vaapi) and proprietary nvidia-340…
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How do I get VA-API and XVBA to work?

Possible Duplicate: How can I enable hardware acceleration for an ATI Radeon HD? I have a Radeon HD 6310 in a mini-ITX motherboard that I am trying to use for a HTPC. I need to figure out how to get VA-API and XVBA to work so my ATI card can do…
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