VLC 2.2 "Weathermax" Brings Better VP9 & H.265 Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: VLC 2.2 "Weathermax" Brings Better VP9 & H.265 Support

VLC 2.2 (codenamed "Weathermax") was released today as the latest version of the popular, multi-platform, open-source media player...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=VLC-2.2-Released

[Adriannho]

I haven't used vlc in a while now. Can anyone comment on the current level of VDPAU support? For Radeon that is.

[89c51]

I haven't used vlc in a while now. Can anyone comment on the current level of VDPAU support? For Radeon that is.

Hardware acceleration seems to work. Just played a 1080p mp4 file.

[Gusar]

I haven't used vlc in a while now. Can anyone comment on the current level of VDPAU support? For Radeon that is.

For VDPAU, VLC 2.2 brings direct display (zero-copy) mode. This means VLC should now match the efficiency of other players which already had direct display since forever. I can't personally test it though, I'm all Intel, which uses VAAPI. And there's no direct display for VAAPI in VLC (there is in gstreamer and mpv).

[uid313]

VLC 3

I look forward to VLC 3 which will feature Wayland support!

[dungeon]

I haven't used vlc in a while now. Can anyone comment on the current level of VDPAU support? For Radeon that is.

xv broken, opengl broken, vdpau partially works... what to say, use mpv .

[schmidtbag]

xv broken, opengl broken, vdpau partially works... what to say, use mpv .

OpenGL works fine for me (or at least I'm not getting errors from it). vdpau works pretty good on intel. I think I had issues with it once on AMD but I think it works ok now.

[dungeon]

OpenGL works fine for me (or at least I'm not getting errors from it). vdpau works pretty good on intel. I think I had issues with it once on AMD but I think it works ok now.

Not for me, it also check for vdpau level on radeon and can't decode 60 fps videos, while those videos decode and play fine with mpv or on youtube.

[dungeon]

Of course i can do things like patching the driver to allow 42 level so it can pass vlc checks ... but playback of those videos are all broken with any output in vlc, with or not patched driver... something that does not happen with other players.

[stqn]

I switched back to SMPlayer recently, I don?t even remember why, but anyway? Now at least xscreensaver does not start in the middle of my videos.

But of course for some reason SMPlayer doesn?t save/reload the settings for each video correctly; it used to work?

Edit: now that I think about it it was because VLC choked on some videos that mplayer could play without any issue.