Bug#899384: vlc: Hardware acceleration fails after upgrade to 3.0.2

[Sebastian Ramacher]

On 2018-06-05 10:13:19, Antoni Marcinek wrote:
> > VA-API was not automatically probed in VLC 2.2. This is expected.
> > VDPAU fails, and then VLC falls back to software decoding.
> >
> > In VLC 3.0, VA-API probing fails due to insufficient hardware
> capabilities, so
> > VLC uses software decoding as well. So no differences.
> >
> > --
> > Rémi Denis-Courmont
> 
> Sorry, I didn't notice this message earlier. Thank you.
> 
> OK, so it is not about hardware acceleration. However something did change
> between VLC versions in Debian what changes behaviour of software decoding.
> The title of the bug report is wrong now, but I guess the issue of software
> decoding should still be addressed. Should I send output of vlc -vvv for
> VLC 3.0.2?
> 
> 
> Still it is not clear who should address the problem of optirun + VLC-Qt.

As mentioned in another subthread: please seek help from someone who's familiar
with optirun, ideally someone who's also familiar with Qt and VLC.

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher
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