NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver 0.0.11 Delivers Various Fixes

[Gusar]

Sadly NVIDIA does not have a power-saving video hardware acceleration method in Linux. NVDEC will invoke CUDA and force the GPU into a higher power state. This project only maps the NVDEC interfaces to VA-API so it cannot solve the problem. Notebook users are better off using the VA-API in iGPU to watch videos. There is one exception, VDPAU, but it has been almost deprecated due to lack of application support.

https://github.com/elFarto/nvidia-va...iver/issues/74

There is one other option - Vulkan. Nvidia even supports the preliminary VK_MESA_video_decode_av1 extension. VP9 support is still missing though. And of course browser support, so far only mpv really supports vulkan video decode.

[nanonyme]

Sadly NVIDIA does not have a power-saving video hardware acceleration method in Linux. NVDEC will invoke CUDA and force the GPU into a higher power state. This project only maps the NVDEC interfaces to VA-API so it cannot solve the problem. Notebook users are better off using the VA-API in iGPU to watch videos. There is one exception, VDPAU, but it has been almost deprecated due to lack of application support.

https://github.com/elFarto/nvidia-va...iver/issues/74

You've got to be kidding. Almost all media software supports VDPAU. It is mostly dying because nVidia didn't prioritize Wayland so there was a lengthy period of time when VDPAU didn't work on Wayland at all. I'm not sure if it still does.

[nyanmisaka]

You've got to be kidding. Almost all media software supports VDPAU. It is mostly dying because nVidia didn't prioritize Wayland so there was a lengthy period of time when VDPAU didn't work on Wayland at all. I'm not sure if it still does.

Since it is widely supported, why was NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver born? No one wants to reinvent the wheel. It turns out that neither Chromium nor Firefox supports VDPAU.

[nyanmisaka]

There is one other option - Vulkan. Nvidia even supports the preliminary VK_MESA_video_decode_av1 extension. VP9 support is still missing though. And of course browser support, so far only mpv really supports vulkan video decode.

Vulkan video is indeed a good thing, but it will take some time to stabilize and adopted by softwares.

[Rovano]

Since it is widely supported, why was NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver born? No one wants to reinvent the wheel. It turns out that neither Chromium nor Firefox supports VDPAU.

There was a time when all the acceleration worked. VDPAU doesn't work with Wayland. In addition, it does not support some new codecs. NVDEC supports everything you need.