Bug#1021664: vlc: Automatic hardware acceleration drops most frames

["Miguel A. Vallejo" <ea4eoz@gmail.com>]

Rémi Denis-Courmont (<remi@remlab.net>) wrote:

> That log shows VLC *not* using video acceleration.

But intel-gpu-top shows VLC using the GPU, so it is trying to use accelerated video. From the very same log I submitted:

libva info: VA-API version 1.16.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_15
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
[00007fd370062690] main generic debug: using hw decoder module "vdpau_avcodec"
[00007fd384c1d9b0] avcodec decoder: Using OpenGL/VAAPI backend for VDPAU for hardware decoding

> Note that Debian has turned off VA-API support in VLC:

https://bugs.debian.org/1021601

Any good reason for that decision? It worked wonderfully

Thanks in advance.