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

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le lundi 28 mai 2018, 00:10:42 EEST Antoni Marcinek a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> I downgraded to 2.2.7-1~deb9u1. As I remembered I can increase the
> speed up to 64x. The messages in the console are the following:
> 
> VLC media player 2.2.7 Umbrella (revision 2.2.7-0-g6e32381286)
> [000055798d591178] core libvlc: Running vlc with the default
> interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
> Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_i965.so: cannot open shared
> object file: No such file or directory
> 
> There is nothing about VA-API, nor profile(3). So I wonder what is going
> on...

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.

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Rémi Denis-Courmont