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Alastor

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Registered: 2012-12-30

Posts: 16

VLC freeze with hardware acceleration enabled

Hi everyone !
I have an annoying problem with VLC.
My laptop have an AMD Radeon HD 7500M and I have installed both catalyst 13.3 and xvba-video from Viol0's repository but hardware acceleration for videos doesn't work. When I open a video encoded with h264 for example, if I check "use hardware acceleration" in VLC my system freeze and I have to force the shutdown by pressing the power button.
Can someone help me ? Thanks.

David Batson

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Registered: 2011-10-13

Posts: 640

Re: VLC freeze with hardware acceleration enabled

You probably need to use OpenGL for your video output.

Note that Catalyst is no longer supported...
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AMD_Catalyst

Your probably better off using the xf86-video-ati and libva-vdpau-driver drivers. [I don't have an AMD GPU myself]
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI

EDIT: You might want to read this as well....
http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/11493 … of-a-mess/

Last edited by David Batson (2013-04-28 08:22:02)

Alastor

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Registered: 2012-12-30

Posts: 16

Re: VLC freeze with hardware acceleration enabled

Well, VERY BIG THANK YOU ! I followed your advice by setting opengl as output and now it work ! Thanks !