Choppy video in vlc even with hardware acceleration on ATI Radeon HD
- by l0b0
After installing Catalyst 11.12 and studying instructions (1, 2) to enable hardware acceleration I ended up with the following command:
sudo apt-get install xvba-va-driver libva-glx1 vainfo && \
vainfo && \
vlc --verbose 2 --ffmpeg-hw video.1080p.x264.mkv
The output confirms that it's using the VA API:
avcodec decoder: Using VA…