Its goal was to create a distribution without precompiled binaries that was tuned to the hardware and only included required programs. Fedora vs gentoo linux detailed comparison as of 2020 slant. Using vlc media player without libvdpau va gl works fine but gives some warnings when starting to play a file. This package contains the vdpau state tracker for radeonsi. Catalystfglrx does not, cannot and most likely will not use vdpau at all. Some applications also support va api but many of them, including adobe flash player.
So, for now, we have decided to drop gentoosources4. At the time of writing the mechanism to automatically decide which backend driver needs to be loaded was not established. Videolan and the vlc development team are happy to publish version 2. For now va api available on some intel chips, and on some amd video adapters with help of xvba va driver. The gentoo package management system allows you to configure what compilation flags packages should support i. Adobe flash player hardware acceleration on intel graphics. Even though running the 32bit flash is much better in terms of not crashing all the time, i lose hardware acceleration provided by libvdpau va gl.
I would rather set the environment variables for all users, if so required. Installing libvdpau va gl solved it for me, but it was a software solution. Nvidia hopes other gpu designers will make their products compatible with the open source vdpau library and provide drivers with vdpau acceleration by mentioning example names of hardware specific drivers for intel and ati. While many video drivers those that are part of xorgx11 do not require users to be part of the video group for hardware acceleration, the nvidia drivers definitely do require this. When the installation is complete run nvidiamodprobe module to manually load kernel modules to begin testing the importance of the video group. For amd64 centos 8 baseos the net install bootable media is located here now the current latest release is 8. Installing libvdpauvagl solved it for me, but it was a software solution. This gist will show you how to tune your intelbased. This commit says h264 ported but deactivated, and there arent any further commits that activate it. By default applications such as mplayer,vlc,vdpauinfo. Wrapper library for the video decode and presentation api.
Hardware video acceleration makes it possible for the video card to decodeencode video, thus offloading the cpu and saving power. Many applications can use vdpau to accelerate portions of the video decoding process and video postprocessing to the gpu video hardware. Nvidia and amd both have support for vdpau, however, intel doesnt they use va api unless you install libvdpau va gl, which acts as a backend between vdpau programs and va api. The distribution project provides the means for the users to enjoy gentoo. They have compatibility libraries that allow talking between the two, like libvdpauvagl which is used for a program that supports vdpau but a driver that supports vaapi and libvavdpau for a program that supports vaapi but a driver that supports vdpau. Solved its nice then, that ive always avoided gstreamer. This gist will show you how to tune your intelbased skylake. Additionally, it includes the following fixes, which are part of 2. Please go to the gentoo handbook and follow those instructions and return here. Introduction to libvdpau the libvdpau package contains a library which implements vdpau vdpau video decode and presentation api for unix is an open source library libvdpau and api originally designed by nvidia for its geforce 8 series and later gpu hardware targeted at the x window system this vdpau api allows video programs to offload portions of the video decoding process and video. Gentoo linux was initially created by daniel robbins as the enoch linux distribution.
Video acceleration api va api is a specification and open source library to provide both hardware accelerated video encoding and decoding, developed by intel. Asturianu catala cesky dansk deutsch english espanol espanol latinoamerica suomi francais hrvatski magyar italiano norsk nederlands polski portugues brasil portugues portugal romana slovencina srpski turkce. I have a computer with an intel 1st generation core i5 cpu and igpu. Vdpau will be enabled automatically by default in vlc version 2. Drop outdated blockere6a3b74 matt turner committed on. How to enable vdpau acceleration for accelerated flash. Just to make clear for others with such problem, the only one package that wasnt on my system libvdpau va gl is placed in overlay x11. Done the following additional packages will be installed.
Video acceleration api va api is a specification and open source library to provide both hardware accelerated video encoding and decoding, developed by intel video decode and presentation api for unix vdpau is. If vdpau available, cpu usage can be significantly lower. This release fixes compatibility with macos high sierra and fixes ssa subtitles rendering on macos. This document will provide you with instructions for installing mythtv on gentoo and provide the following extras. Vdpau is the video decode and presentation api for unix. Its part of the x11 overlay in layman layman add x11 lets clear this up. They both can use vdpau, but since there is no vdpau available on intel chips, they fall back to different. This tutorial is going to show you how to enable hardware acceleration on intel graphics cards using vdpau driver. Hi, i only now managed to follow your tips and it finally work now. This release fixes a security issue in the avi demuxer. I need that to play 1080p videos on youtube, since my core i3 cant handle it without droping lots of frames. Opengl available, you know, on systems with opengl available. Vdpau is an opensource library and api allows to video programs to offload portions of the video decoding process and video postprocessing to the gpu videohardware. The most prominent utility included is lsusb, a hardware detection tool for system resources connected to the universal serial bus.
Even though running the 32bit flash is much better in terms of not crashing all the time, i lose hardware acceleration provided by libvdpauvagl. It is, however, possible to use intels va api drivers by way of libvdpau va gl. Nvidia and amd both have support for vdpau, however, intel doesnt they use vaapi unless you install libvdpauvagl, which acts as a backend between vdpau programs and vaapi. Some software supports both apis vdpau and vaapi, but i believe vdpau is more popular. It provides an interface to video decode acceleration and presentation hardware present in modern gpus. Minimal net install is useful when a dedicated server is installed from a ipmi kvm or dell idrac, hp ilo, ibm imm or where the initial client side download of files need to be minimal. This library then dynamically loads appropriate backend driver vdpau driver specific to your hardware read more. How to enable vdpau acceleration for accelerated flash video. For now vaapi is available on some intel chips, and on some amd video adapters with help of xvbavadriver. 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. Gentoo advent calendar 2016 advent calendar 2016 adventar. It is a community built around a distribution which is driven by more than 300 developers and thousands of users.
As far as vdpau only being for nvidia, i believe they were the ones who developed it, but it became quite popular in the industry and is used by a lot of programs. Gentoo is a free community built operating system based on either linux or freebsd that can be automatically optimized and customized for just. If you accept one of the default flags, gentoo downloads binaries from the server. Please make sure that any nonroot user is part of the video group. Porteus is a fast, portable and modular live cdusb medium based on slackware linux. It is, however, possible to use intels vaapi drivers by way of libvdpauvagl. Gentoo is a trademark of the gentoo foundation, inc.
Introduction to libvdpauvagl the libvdpauvagl package contains the vdpau driver for hardware that supports vaapi this package is known to build and work properly using an lfs7. Just to make clear for others with such problem, the only one package that wasnt on my system libvdpauvagl is placed in overlay x11. Libvdpau download apk, eopkg, rpm, tgz, txz, xz, zst. Debian details of source package libvdpauvagl in buster. For now va api is available on some intel chips, and on some amd video adapters with help of xvba va driver. Enlightenment, gnome, icewm, jwm, kde plasma, lxde, mate, openbox, ratpoison, xfce category. Gentoo forums view topic adobeflash crashing all the. Using vlc media player without libvdpauvagl works fine but gives some warnings when starting to play a file. 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.
Enable hardware acceleration on intel graphics cards in. Gentoo on windows 10 gentoo advent calender 2016 5. The scriptkitties portage overlay for gentoo, and gentoo like, systems. Hardware video acceleration makes it possible for the video card to decodeencode video, thus offloading the cpu and saving power there are several ways to achieve this on linux. Gentoo base system first we must have a working gentoo system. Unfortunately, there is no such library for many graphic chipsets. While vlc media player has supported hardwareassisted video decoding for a few years, fully gpuaccelerated decoding, postprocessing and rendering has proven a challenge for the traditional software architecture vlc version 2. Use flags for x11libs libvdpau vdpau wrapper and trace libraries. To check your dxva compatibility, please download dxva checker. Download libvdpau va gl linux packages for alt linux, arch linux, centos, fedora, freebsd, openmandriva, slackware, solus. Your system may work perfectly outofthebox without needing any configuration. Whether is actually works is a different matter, i dont have any personal experience with it. Vaapi is supported for decoding only since vlc version 1.