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tyr0

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Registered: 2007-06-02

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[Request] vlc with VDPAU patches

Actually I don't know how good the VDPAU patches for vlc are, however, is there anybody who wants to give these patches a try and write a PKGBUILD?

http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2009/0 … and-nVidia

Gen2ly

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Registered: 2009-03-06

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Re: [Request] vlc with VDPAU patches

Ah this be nice.  Didn't know that VlC was working on this.

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uwinkelvos

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Registered: 2009-06-07

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Re: [Request] vlc with VDPAU patches

http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php … 15#p205875

It should not be too hard to get this working.
1) I just checked, that the ffmpeg vaapi patches already are in svn trunk. So the ffmpeg-svn from aur should be sufficient.
2) vlc git should be fine with a patched configure.ac
3) then we need libva and vdpau video from: http://www.splitted-desktop.com/~gbeauchesne/ And this is where me efforts fail. when i apply the libva patches and try to build with ./configure && make i get some errors. This is some kind of autotools problem, but i really dont know how to solve this.

uwinkelvos

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Re: [Request] vlc with VDPAU patches

"autoreconf --install", was what i was looking for. (autogen.sh is missing in the 0.30 series) Lets see might be, we will have a vdpau and va enabled vlc tonight!

uwinkelvos

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Re: [Request] vlc with VDPAU patches

work-in-progress package: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28077

heaven

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Registered: 2009-11-24

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Re: [Request] vlc with VDPAU patches

He works but I don't see any improvements.

uwinkelvos

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Registered: 2009-06-07

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Re: [Request] vlc with VDPAU patches

btw: it does finaly work!

1) install libva-sds and your vaapi video driver. e.g. vdpau-video
2) recompile ffmpeg with --enable-vaapi
3) build this package http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26800 with --enable-libva
4) startup vlc and select tools->preferences->input & codecs->use gpu acceleration

Dehir

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Registered: 2009-11-08

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Re: [Request] vlc with VDPAU patches

Well what i have to say about that is. I did all the previous that uwinkelvos did describe and didnt managed to get vdpau as an option in vlc video input codecs :\

wonder

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Re: [Request] vlc with VDPAU patches

Well what i have to say about that is. I did all the previous that uwinkelvos did describe and didnt managed to get vdpau as an option in vlc video input codecs :\

if you did that then you did it wrong.

vlc from extra supports libva for some time now. the only package that you need now is vpdau-video + the option in vlc to be enabled

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Rasi

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Re: [Request] vlc with VDPAU patches

Well what i have to say about that is. I did all the previous that uwinkelvos did describe and didnt managed to get vdpau as an option in vlc video input codecs :\

if you did that then you did it wrong.

vlc from extra supports libva for some time now. the only package that you need now is vpdau-video + the option in vlc to be enabled

hmm... well i have all those packages, but vlc has no vdpau option...

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Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

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Re: [Request] vlc with VDPAU patches

hmm... well i have all those packages, but vlc has no vdpau option...

VLC doesn't support VDPAU. It supports VAAPI. But vdpau-video is a bridge between those two.

azleifel

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Registered: 2007-10-28

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Re: [Request] vlc with VDPAU patches

Tools -> Preferences -> Input & Codecs -> Use GPU acceleration (experimental)

$ vlc /mnt/free/Video/vdr/Return_of_the_Goodies/2010-11-13.19.58.99.99.rec/001.vdr 
VLC media player 1.1.5 The Luggage (revision exported)
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_ADDRESS")
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_BUS_TYPE")
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")
Blocked: call to sigaction(17, 0x7f5904815ac0, 0x7f5904815b60)
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")

(process:28455): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
    Using the fallback 'C' locale.
Warning: call to signal(13, 0x1)
libva: libva version 0.31.1
Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so
Blocked: call to setlocale(1, "C")
Blocked: call to setlocale(1, "en_GB.utf8")
Blocked: call to setlocale(1, "C")
libva: va_openDriver() returns 0
[0x1c3c4b0] avcodec decoder: Using VA API version 0.31 for hardware decoding.