Long ago, VAAPI use on VLC was disabled due to a Nvidia issue with that flag that made VLC segfault, support was also occasionally unstable on other GPUs.
Since VLC2 claims its GPU support to be no more experimental, this USE flag is now enabled (along with egl) and begs for testing. media-video/vlc-2.0.0 More details on this discussion can be found on bug 2713: https://bugs.sabayon.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2713 For KDE4 users, phonon and phonon-vlc packages were also updated and need testing: media-libs/phonon-4.6.0-r1 media-libs/phonon-vlc-0.5.0 -- Lorenzo Cogotti
