>>>> No luck. Weird. It's working in xbmc so I can't be far off. What >>>> could I be missing? >>>> >>> >>> Sorry I've been crazy busy. I hope tomorrow I'll have some time to power >>> up the NUC and check some settings. >>> >>> I'll get the USE flags and my /etc/portage/package.use if I have one, >>> the profile I'm using and perhaps some versions of software I have >>> installed. >> >> >> It turns out xbmc and vlc support both vdpau and vaapi. mplayer >> supports vdpau and also vaapi via libvdpau-va-gl (x11 overlay). I >> haven't installed mplayer2 but it sounds like it supports vaapi. Are >> all the smart people switching from mplayer to mplayer2? For me: xbmc >> accelerates, vlc does not, mplayer claims it's accelerating via vdpau >> in the console output but all I get is a black window. Have you tried >> vlc? > > > Just got mplayer accelerating. I needed to upgrade from > libvdpau-va-gl-0.3.4 to libvdpau-va-gl-9999. vlc is still a mystery.
I got vlc accelerating by upgrading from libva-intel-driver-1.3.0 to 1.3.2 and launching vlc like this: $ vlc --avcodev-hw=vaapi - Grant
