Amdgpu pro proprietary driver is built on top of amdgpu driver and supports both vaapi and vdpau. How do i enable vdpau hardware video acceleration support for. Xvba is amd technology and is third option in mplayer. This package enables support for vdpau for some gallium drivers.
Vdpau is the video decode and presentation api for unix. How to enable vdpau acceleration for accelerated flash. 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. Atiamd are also dependent on mesa for vdpau drivers. I have installed mintmetacodecs mintmeta debian codecs and i965 va driver. If that is indeed the case, well, long live va api and vdpau.
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. 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. 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. Both screenshots were taken on my old, but still quite powerful desktop. So a patched vdpauvadriver is required to use this with nvidia. How to install nvidialegacy340xxvdpaudriver on debian.
Nouvea was ok for the desktop but my vms had little or no 3d support. With libvdpauvagl1 and i965vadriver installed, video is displayed with the wrong aspect ratio and. How to enable hardware acceleration in chromium on ubuntu or. The va api video acceleration api enables hardware accelerated video decodeencode at various entrypoints vld, idct, motion compensation etc. Install mplayer with vaapi hardware acceleration for intel. 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. How to install gimp on ubuntu via command terminal h2s media. A few changes are required in libva for the vdpau and xvba support to be implemented. Debian details of package mesavdpaudrivers in stretch. Intel and ati currently offer no support for vdpau. Vdpauvaapi backend hardware accel on intelamd in flash.
Vdpau vaapi backend hardware accel on intelamd in flash and other. Output bypasses x video driver by opening own disp layers. 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. This package contains the vdpaubased backend driver for use with the va api library.
Bugs in package vdpauvadriver in unstable debian bug. This probably means that the package has been removed or has been renamed. For linux laptop users in particular the lack of hardware video decoding in chrome. Download vaapi driver vdpau packages for mageia, pclinuxos. Bugs in package vdpau va driver in unstable maintainers for vdpau va driver are debian multimedia maintainers debian. Debian user forums view topic vdpau error with intel. Debian details of package vdpauvadriver in stretch. 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. Debian details of package vdpaudriverall in buster.
These libraries provide the video decode and presentation api for unix. S3 graphics added support for vdpau to the linux drivers of its chrome 400 video cards since version 14. I got fed up by lazy support for newer version of xorg from fglrx. You have searched for packages that names contain vdpauvadriver in all suites, all sections, and all architectures.
Download vdpau va driver packages for debian, ubuntu. Xvba vaapi support linux amd hardware decode steam. Enable the vdpau hardware acceleration in flash player. Vaapi hardware acceleration on debian with intel cpu how i did it posted in linux. This gist contains instructions on setting up ffmpeg and libav to use vaapibased hardware accelerated encoding on supported platforms for h. Va api software support is provided by various debian packages, including the various driver packages e. 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. This seems to include most of the latest and greatest 4k and 8k videos ive used on youtube that are hardest on.
Vaapi on radeon hd 2000 and newer gpus is supported by libvamesadriver. My debian workstation uses radeon hd 3000 graphic card, cheap onboard. I didnt like playing with different version of xorg just to run amds graphics driver. Copy sent to debian multimedia packages maintainers debian. To contribute to the site you need to use debian s single signon. You might like to refer to the vdpau va driver package page, to the package tracking system, or to the source package src. 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. Adobe flash player hardware acceleration on intel graphics. Cant install or update mesavdpaudrivers ask ubuntu. 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. Install mplayer with vaapi hardware acceleration for.
This open source library package contains a wrapper library and a debugging library allowing other manufacturers to implement vdpau in their device drivers. In order to support va api with a vdpau or xvba backend, a slightly modified version of the va api library is required. 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. 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. Ubuntu mate, linux mint, debian or other ubuntu based os such as elementary os freya. A useful utility is vainfo provided by the vainfo package, which provides information about available va api capabilities, including the list of codecs. Install mplayer with va api hardware acceleration for intel amd gpus support in ubuntu ubuntu linux blog. Here is a backend for vdpau that uses vaapi for video decoding and gl for everything other. Install nvidia drivers in rhelcentosfedora and debian. Vaapi hardware acceleration on deb ian with intel cpu how i did it posted in linux. Playing the same clips in mpv and vlc there is quite some difference.
Add vdpau or nvdec hardware decoding support on linux. It also should specify the name of backend driver r300 in the sample output. 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. There is no translation layer ever between va api and vdpau in mesa context. 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 enable hardware acceleration in chromium on ubuntu. However, here we are only showing you how to install the gimp on ubuntu 18.
Vaapi hardware acceleration on debian with intel cpu. It does not provide any drivers itself, and may be removed if you wish to only have certain drivers installed. 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. A command line tool to take desktopserver screenshots automatically in linux.
Installing the proprietary nvidia drivers fixed that problem. The output will show if vdpau driver has been initialized properly two leading ii letters in the sample output above. Install the va api driver for intel graphics cards, youll need to install the i965 va driver package it may already be installed. Experimental vp9 codec support for vdpau va driver nvidia vdpau vaapi wrapper and chromiumvaapi xtknight vdpau va driver vp9. Intel can use vdpau over libva and you need the following 2 packages. 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.
Debian user forums view topic building intelva driver. Stretchs 2016 mesa is too old to support 2018 hardware. Vdpau on radeon r300 and newer gpus is supported by mesavdpau. See the debian wiki for more information on how to make screenshots under debian. Gstreamer backend dont use hardware accelerate vaapi. Video acceleration api is a successor to xvmc, providing partial and full hardware offloading of video decoding. Intel does not offer vdpau drivers, they only support their va api. If youve added the chromium dev ppa, you can install it using this command.
Some software supports both apis vdpau and va api, but i believe vdpau is more popular. Description of software in the debian linux distribution under maintenance of the debian multimedia team. Download vdpauvadriver packages for debian, ubuntu. Please set your language to english so that everybody understands it. Fresh player plugin gets hardware accelerated video decoding. How to enable vdpau acceleration for accelerated flash video. 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. Ironically vainfo now returns errors again, but checking hardware acceleration in vlc made a huge difference for playing h. This gist contains instructions on setting up ffmpeg and. Install nvidia drivers in rhel centosfedora and debianubuntu linux mint.
If you dont use english by default please start your application from a shell using after setting export langc. The advantage is that it is supported by mainstream video players directly mplayer and by extension smplayerumplayeretc, mpv, xbmc, vlc2. Anyway, vdpau via vaapi with vlc isnt up to par with native vdpau implementations such as in mpvmplayer or xbmc. Nov 21, 2012 install intel amd va api drivers in ubuntu before installing mplayer with va api support, install the va api drivers. 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. 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. Install nvidialegacy340xx vdpau driverinstalling nvidialegacy340xx vdpau driver package on debian unstable sid is as easy as running the followi. I am coming to arch from debian running a geforce series video card. This vdpau api allows video programs to offload portions of the video decoding process and video postprocessing to the gpu videohardware.
Activate backported sources install backported kernel reboot install all the packages needed for hardware acceleration from backports perhaps not all of them are neccesary. Unless using fglrx, to use vdpau one needs to do source build installation or wait until official debian adds it in radeon package. Hi, i have been fiddling around with this for too long, so here is what i did for all you after me. Bug reports developer information debian changelog.
Interface frontends are also available for atis xvba and nvidias vdpau. Nowadays vlc supports both vaapi and vdpau, so libva vdpau driver isnt needed anymore. Debian user forums view topic intel uhd graphics 630. 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. 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. Ubuntu motu developers mail archive please consider filing a bug or asking a question via launchpad before contacting the maintainer directly. 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. You can also use the vdpau va driver driver which is a. Briefly, this is the vdpau driver with va apiopengl backend there are applications exists that can use vdpau. Vaapi hardware acceleration on debian with intel cpu how i.
They both can use vdpau, but since there is no vdpau available on intel chips, they fall back to different drawing techniques. It also works with the vdpauvadriver for nvidia cards. If you have other video application configured to use vdpau, then you need that library. I have not found anything recent in forums, websites, wikis, mailing lists etc. 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.
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