The libvdpau package contains a library which implements the VDPAU library.
VDPAU (Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix) is an open source library (libvdpau) and API originally designed by NVIDIA for its GeForce 8 series and later GPU hardware targeted at the X Window System. This VDPAU API allows video programs to offload portions of the video decoding process and video post-processing to the GPU video-hardware.
Currently, the portions capable of being offloaded by VDPAU onto the GPU are motion compensation (mo comp), inverse discrete cosine transform (iDCT), VLD (variable-length decoding) and deblocking for MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 ASP (MPEG-4 Part 2), H.264/MPEG-4 AVC and VC-1, WMV3/WMV9 encoded videos. Which specific codecs of these that can be offloaded to the GPU depends on the version of the GPU hardware; specifically, to also decode MPEG-4 ASP (MPEG-4 Part 2), Xvid/OpenDivX (DivX 4), and DivX 5 formats, a GeForce 200M (2xxM) Series (the eleventh generation of NVIDIA's GeForce graphics processing units) or newer GPU hardware is required.
The VDPAU driver suitable for the hardware in your system:
libvdpau-va-gl-0.4.2 (for Intel GPUs)
and Mesa-24.2.7 (providing the r600, radeonsi, and
nouveau VDPAU drivers, for the ATI/AMD
Radeon HD 2xxx GPUs and later, and supported
NVIDIA GPUs; Mesa must be built after this package for these
drivers)
Install libvdpau by running the following commands:
mkdir build && cd build && meson setup --prefix=/usr .. && ninja
To test the results, issue: ninja test. There is only one test for this package, dlclose, and it is known to fail on some systems.
Now, as the root user:
ninja install
If doxygen is present at build
time place the documentation in a versioned directory as the
root user:
[ -e /usr/share/doc/libvdpau ] && mv -v /usr/share/doc/libvdpau{,1.5}
First clean the build directory:
rm -rf *
Install lib32-libvdpau by running the following commands:
CC="gcc -m32" CXX="g++ -m32" \
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib32/pkgconfig \
meson setup --prefix=/usr \
--libdir=/usr/lib32 \
.. &&
ninja
Now, as the root user:
DESTDIR=$PWD/DESTDIR ninja install && cp -vr DESTDIR/usr/lib32/* /usr/lib32 && rm -rf DESTDIR && ldconfig