{"id":5597,"date":"2019-05-18T15:49:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T13:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/?p=5597"},"modified":"2019-05-18T22:25:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-18T20:25:45","slug":"intellinuxvideo-acceleration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/?p=5597","title":{"rendered":"Intel+Linux+Video Acceleration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Seems there is still some manual work to do before VLC accelerates video decoding using integrated Intel graphics on Linux \u2013 at least on Mint. Installing <em>i965-va-driver<\/em> should do the trick. By issuing <em>vainfo<\/em> (another package) you can make sure it works too. VLC might not use the acceleration by default so go to <em>Preferences \u2013\u00a0Input \/ Codecs \u2013\u00a0Hardware-accelerated decoding<\/em> and choose VA-API. Dunno if X11 vs. DRM makes any difference, but both seemed to be ok. With some luck you should see massive savings in CPU usage: at least on my laptop there was a 75% drop when decoding fullhd h264.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>edit: On my Chromebook one fullhd h264 video peaked at 120% CPU without acceleration and now it consumes steady 21%.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems there is still some manual work to do before VLC accelerates video decoding using integrated Intel graphics on Linux \u2013 at least on Mint. Installing i965-va-driver should do the trick. By issuing vainfo (another package) you can make sure it works too. VLC might not use the acceleration by default so go to Preferences [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-softat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5597"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5601,"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597\/revisions\/5601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}