Felix Miata wrote:
Per Jessen composed on 2016-06-01 15:56 (UTC+0200):
Felix Miata wrote:
Per Jessen composed on 2016-06-01 13:51 (UTC+0200):
It works wonders for playing HDTV streams from mythtv. On a somewhat modern Intel CPU. Without it, HDTV is generally impossible. YMMV. More modern CPUs might be better, dunno. A lot of HPC is done on GPUs these days, so they're good for something.
I got lost trying to figure out what "it" is. Is it vaapi? If so, is it enough simply to have vaapi-tools installed?
"it" = video hardware acceleration.
Yes, if you have Intel Graphics, vaapi-tools should be enough. Then run vainfo from a konsole, and it'll tell you.
What is it actually telling me?:
# vainfo libva info: VA-API version 0.38.0 libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0 libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/i965_drv_video.so libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_38 libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0 vainfo: VA-API version: 0.38 (libva 1.6.0) vainfo: Driver version: Intel i965 driver for Intel(R) Haswell Desktop - 1.6.0 vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileH264MultiviewHigh : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264MultiviewHigh : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileH264StereoHigh : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264StereoHigh : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileVC1Simple : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileVC1Main : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileNone : VAEntrypointVideoProc VAProfileJPEGBaseline : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264MultiviewHigh : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264MultiviewHigh : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileH264StereoHigh : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264StereoHigh : VAEntrypointEncSlice
This means you have hardware accelerated video. vainfo talks to the driver and the driver talks to the hardware. If you're using MythTV, you should be able to enable it somewhere in settings - renderer = auto or something like that. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (20.9°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - your free DNS host, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org