elementary / elementary/videos
Application not using HW video decoding
- Dominant language
- Vala
- Stars
- 57
- Forks
- 16
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Description
Installed Juno with latest patches, vaapi et al. and in videos no acceleration is used. When I switch to VLC and configure it to use VA-API everything works perfectly.
Can we expect at some point support for HW accelerated video playback that support VA-API, VDPAU or whatever else is supported by the OS.
I have generic laptop with dual video card Intel HD Haswell mobile/ Nvidia GT745M
Contributor guide
Research direction
Use the issue's VLC configuration with VA-API as the behavioral reference, then inspect the current video playback path in the repository to determine how decoding is selected. Done means video playback uses supported hardware acceleration, with the chosen VA-API, VDPAU, or OS-supported approach verified on the reported Intel/Nvidia laptop.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- desktop, performance
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100