Using it, you can get hardware acceleration on some intel graphics cards for mplayer well, we already have mplayervaapi but it hasnt been merged and even adobe flash player the flash. The output will show if vdpau driver has been initialized properly two leading ii letters in the sample output above. Debian user forums view topic intel uhd graphics 630. S3 graphics added support for vdpau to the linux drivers of its chrome 400 video cards since version 14. Ubuntu motu developers mail archive please consider filing a bug or asking a question via launchpad before contacting the maintainer directly. If that is indeed the case, well, long live va api and vdpau. Download vaapi driver vdpau packages for mageia, pclinuxos. Install nvidialegacy340xx vdpau driverinstalling nvidialegacy340xx vdpau driver package on debian unstable sid is as easy as running the followi. Install nvidia drivers in rhel centosfedora and debianubuntu linux mint.
They both can use vdpau, but since there is no vdpau available on intel chips, they fall back to different drawing techniques. Vaapi hardware acceleration on deb ian with intel cpu how i did it posted in linux. On the other hand vdpau is used in the open source radeon driver for the 5xxx and newer cards some 4xxx models work with it too. Output bypasses x video driver by opening own disp layers. Also i have to note that if vdpau is supported by driver and vdpau va driver is installed it will be looks like both of va api and vdpau is available, so firefox will. Xvba is amd technology and is third option in mplayer. Copy sent to debian multimedia packages maintainers debian. Using ubuntu debian sudo aptget install libva1 i965 va driver libvaintelvaapi driver vainfo. You could have configured the video application to use va api and you absolutely do not require mesa vdpau for va api to work. They have compatibility libraries that allow talking between the two, like libvdpau va gl which is used for a program that supports vdpau but a driver that supports va api and libva vdpau for a program that supports va api but a driver that supports vdpau. My debian workstation uses radeon hd 3000 graphic card, cheap onboard. This seems to include most of the latest and greatest 4k and 8k videos ive used on youtube that are hardest on. Vdpau on radeon r300 and newer gpus is supported by mesavdpau. Both screenshots were taken on my old, but still quite powerful desktop.
Interface frontends are also available for atis xvba and nvidias vdpau. Stretchs 2016 mesa is too old to support 2018 hardware. Fresh player plugin gets hardware accelerated video decoding. Video decode and presentation api for unix driver metapackage 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. Debian details of package vdpaudriverall in buster.
If you dont use english by default please start your application from a shell using after setting export langc. But libva vdpau driver is a wrapper when vlc used to be vaapi only, libva vdpau driver allowed you to get hardware acceleration in it with the nvidia proprietary driver. Gstreamer backend dont use hardware accelerate vaapi. How do i enable vdpau hardware video acceleration support for. Cant install or update mesavdpaudrivers ask ubuntu. How to install nvidialegacy340xxvdpaudriver on debian. 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. Intel does not offer vdpau drivers, they only support their va api. I have not found anything recent in forums, websites, wikis, mailing lists etc. To contribute to the site you need to use debian s single signon. Intel and ati currently offer no support for vdpau. Install mplayer with vaapi hardware acceleration for. Download vdpauvadriver packages for debian, ubuntu.
Activate backported sources install backported kernel reboot install all the packages needed for hardware acceleration from backports perhaps not all of them are neccesary. Description of software in the debian linux distribution under maintenance of the debian multimedia team. Intel can use vdpau over libva and you need the following 2 packages. This probably means that the package has been removed or has been renamed. Atiamd are also dependent on mesa for vdpau drivers.
Debian user forums view topic building intelva driver. It does not provide any drivers itself, and may be removed if you wish to only have certain drivers installed. Ubuntu mate, linux mint, debian or other ubuntu based os such as elementary os freya. It also should specify the name of backend driver r300 in the sample output. If you have other video application configured to use vdpau, then you need that library. How to enable hardware acceleration in chromium on ubuntu or.
Installing the proprietary nvidia drivers fixed that problem. In order to support va api with a vdpau or xvba backend, a slightly modified version of the va api library is required. This gist contains instructions on setting up ffmpeg and libav to use vaapibased hardware accelerated encoding on supported platforms for h. This adds experimental nvidia hardware video acceleration support to vdpauvadriver for videos encoded using vp9 profile 0 8bit color depth. This package contains the vdpaubased backend driver for use with the va api library. Debian user forums view topic vdpau error with intel. Please set your language to english so that everybody understands it. Vaapi hardware acceleration on debian with intel cpu. The important parts are enabling mp4avc stream and the player type. I got fed up by lazy support for newer version of xorg from fglrx. With libvdpauvagl1 and i965vadriver installed, video is displayed with the wrong aspect ratio and.
I didnt like playing with different version of xorg just to run amds graphics driver. Some software supports both apis vdpau and va api, but i believe vdpau is more popular. Not all applications have been updated to work with libva2, and debian unstable does allow installation of libva1 and libva2 concurrently, but this doesnt work for vdpau because vdpau va driver 0. Ironically vainfo now returns errors again, but checking hardware acceleration in vlc made a huge difference for playing h. Ati and amdgpu opensource drivers support both vaapi and vdpau.
Jun 18, 2015 fresh player plugin was updated recently with support for hardware accelerated video decoding via va api and vdpau, along with video capture support alsa, jack, pulseaudio and other improvements. Vaapi on radeon hd 2000 and newer gpus is supported by libvamesadriver. By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features. A command line tool to take desktopserver screenshots automatically in linux. If youve added the chromium dev ppa, you can install it using this command. Vdpau was initially developed by nvidia as a means of video acceleration for their binary video driver but has since gained support within gallium3d and other drivers independent of nvidia. You can also use the vdpau va driver driver which is a. This already slightly enhanced the performance over the previous solution using vaapi and the vaapi vdpau driver a. I am coming to arch from debian running a geforce series video card. Using this driver its possible to access va api implementations intel, amd proprietary and vdpau implementations nvidia proprietary, nvidia free, radeon free using va api. These libraries provide the video decode and presentation api for unix.
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. Amdgpu pro proprietary driver is built on top of amdgpu driver and supports both vaapi and vdpau. A useful utility is vainfo provided by the vainfo package, which provides information about available va api capabilities, including the list of codecs. This vdpau api allows video programs to offload portions of the video decoding process and video postprocessing to the gpu videohardware. Playing the same clips in mpv and vlc there is quite some difference. I have installed mintmetacodecs mintmeta debian codecs and i965 va driver. 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. The vdpau backend for va api is right now about 3,100 lines of code. Bug reports developer information debian changelog.
For linux laptop users in particular the lack of hardware video decoding in chrome. Vdpau is the video decode and presentation api for unix. Enable the vdpau hardware acceleration in flash player. You have searched for packages that names contain vdpauvadriver in all suites, all sections, and all architectures. Adobe flash player hardware acceleration on intel graphics. Bugs in package vdpau va driver in unstable maintainers for vdpau va driver are debian multimedia maintainers debian. Here is a backend for vdpau that uses vaapi for video decoding and gl for everything other. However, here we are only showing you how to install the gimp on ubuntu 18. Nov 21, 2012 install intel amd va api drivers in ubuntu before installing mplayer with va api support, install the va api drivers. Xvba vaapi support linux amd hardware decode steam. Download vdpau va driver packages for debian, ubuntu. Nowadays vlc supports both vaapi and vdpau, so libva vdpau driver isnt needed anymore. How to enable vdpau acceleration for accelerated flash video.
Install mplayer with vaapi hardware acceleration for intel. Although the video driver should automatically enable hardware video acceleration support for both va api and vdpau, it may be needed to configure va api vdpau manually. If you encounter bugs with the default modesetting driver that youll then be assigned, any debian version of the xserverxorgvideointel intel i915 driver is still too old and buggy with that hardware, but im happy using a newer version of that dating from last month. The va api video acceleration api enables hardware accelerated video decodeencode at various entrypoints vld, idct, motion compensation etc. Chromium with the va api patch is also available for some other linux distributions, in thirdparty repositories, like arch linux for nvidia youll need this patched libva vdpau driver for example. 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. If you dont use ubuntu or linux mint, youll have to find these packages yourself. Add vdpau or nvdec hardware decoding support on linux. Vdpauvaapi backend hardware accel on intelamd in flash.
How to enable hardware acceleration in chromium on ubuntu. Nouvea was ok for the desktop but my vms had little or no 3d support. So a patched vdpauvadriver is required to use this with nvidia. This package enables support for vdpau for some gallium drivers.
The libvdpau standalone vdpau library is distributed by nvidia independently of their proprietary linux graphics driver in an effort to help the adoption of vdpau by those outside of nvidia. How to install gimp on ubuntu via command terminal h2s media. Va api software support is provided by various debian packages, including the various driver packages e. Install nvidia drivers in rhelcentosfedora and debian. A few changes are required in libva for the vdpau and xvba support to be implemented. Hi, i have been fiddling around with this for too long, so here is what i did for all you after me. Vdpau vaapi backend hardware accel on intelamd in flash and other. Install mplayer with va api hardware acceleration for intel amd gpus support in ubuntu ubuntu linux blog.
April 10, 2007 debian 4 etch installation screenshots this is the first part of the debian installation tutorial i am planning to write, in this part, is the installation itself based on screenshots, the next part will be the description about installing the servers, web, email, mysql, dns. Briefly, this is the vdpau driver with va apiopengl backend there are applications exists that can use vdpau. Anyway, vdpau via vaapi with vlc isnt up to par with native vdpau implementations such as in mpvmplayer or xbmc. Debian details of package mesavdpaudrivers in stretch. See the debian wiki for more information on how to make screenshots under debian. The advantage is that it is supported by mainstream video players directly mplayer and by extension smplayerumplayeretc, mpv, xbmc, vlc2. Bugs in package vdpauvadriver in unstable debian bug. This open source library package contains a wrapper library and a debugging library allowing other manufacturers to implement vdpau in their device drivers. There is no translation layer ever between va api and vdpau in mesa context. Vaapi hardware acceleration on debian with intel cpu how i. Vdpau video decode and presentation api for unix is the name of a library that allows to assign a part of the workload of decoding and postprocessing a video to the gpu. Unless using fglrx, to use vdpau one needs to do source build installation or wait until official debian adds it in radeon package. You might like to refer to the vdpau va driver package page, to the package tracking system, or to the source package src.
How to enable vdpau acceleration for accelerated flash. Experimental vp9 codec support for vdpau va driver nvidia vdpau vaapi wrapper and chromiumvaapi xtknight vdpau va driver vp9. Install the va api driver for intel graphics cards, youll need to install the i965 va driver package it may already be installed. Video acceleration api is a successor to xvmc, providing partial and full hardware offloading of video decoding. Debian details of package vdpauvadriver in stretch.
It also works with the vdpauvadriver for nvidia cards. I am getting off topic now so i will just say that i need to try vmware and see where i land with the default radeon drivers. This gist contains instructions on setting up ffmpeg and. Vaapi hardware acceleration on debian with intel cpu how i did it posted in linux.
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