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Lr2bej77n892lio

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Registered: 2025-04-30

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[SOLVED] in VLC, Can't select 'hardware-accelerated decoding'.

Previously, I was able to select options like VDPAU, VA-API. But for some reason, they are now unavailable.
I'm not sure if this is a VLC issue or a problem with my system settings.

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$ vdpauinfo
Information string: NVIDIA VDPAU Driver Shared Library  575.64.05  Fri Jul 18 15:42:48 UTC 2025

$ vainfo
Trying display: wayland
vainfo: VA-API version: 1.22 (libva 2.22.0)
vainfo: Driver version: VA-API NVDEC driver [direct backend]

Last edited by Lr2bej77n892lio (2025-08-09 10:33:38)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [SOLVED] in VLC, Can't select 'hardware-accelerated decoding'.

The vlc package got recently split into subcomponents, for VDPAU and most general playback purposes you at least want vlc-plugin-ffmpeg, to restore full functionality vlc-plugins-all would also be a good option. For a general overview of your options

pacman -Qi vlc

pacman will have told you about this during the update that introduced the split.

Last edited by V1del (2025-08-08 18:01:16)

Lr2bej77n892lio

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Registered: 2025-04-30

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Re: [SOLVED] in VLC, Can't select 'hardware-accelerated decoding'.

That makes sense.
Thank you for clarifying.