>>> 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. - Grant
