fedora-vaapi.md

Hardware video acceleration on Fedora

Browsers

Firefox

Apps

mpv

Add

hwdec=auto

to ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf

VLC

Use the VLC - Flatpak version from flathub, there's a problem with vlc - rpm package - from Fedora main repositories¹.

• Install

  flatpak remote-modify --enable flathub
  flatpak install flathub org.videolan.VLC
  

• Config

  Tools / Preferences / Input & Codecs / Codecs / Hardware-accelerated decoding / VA-API video decoder

  [!TIP] If VA-API video decoder doesn't work, try VA-API video decoder with DRM.

Useful links

• Hardware video acceleration | Arch Linux - Wiki

Footnotes

1. https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/vlc-not-exposing-va-api-as-a-hardware-acceleration-option/101133 ↩