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[Bug 993397] Re: vdpau not working (well) with Ubuntu12.04 Unity

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From: bowser <993397@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 17:30:47 -0000
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@c10ud

Hi, I am aware of the 'enable gpu acceleration' option in vlc, but it
never works.  You have to compile vlc and ffmpeg with the proper options
enabled for vaapi to work.

http://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_VAAPI

Moreover, the way VLC uses vdpau (through vaapi) is not efficient (see
first paragraph of link above) so even if that is enabled cpu usage is
still much higher than mplayer, mplayer2 and XBMC.  VLC may have other
nifty features, but it is not the best Linux mediaplayer if you watch a
lot of HD videos IMO. If you have a vdpau enabled Nvidia card, mplayer
usually works a lot better, and mplayer2 is the best.

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