Strange, VLC's YT has never broken in Stretch unless ive no been realised.. Ive never ever had any trouble wathing youtube vids in VLC...indeed, I always wondered why youtube.dl broke so often and VLC's not.stevepusser wrote:Vainfo said their hardware didn't support vp9 hardware decoding, but should h.264.
VLC should support vaapi automatically, so the user should download some hidef h.264 video to test in VLC from the terminal to see if that works.
VLC can also play Youtube URLs, but YT may have broke it for Debian's as they do so often. I just sent up a patched 3.11.1 to MX repos to address that problem (I get the current youtube.lua file from VLC's github and make that into a patch).
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Re: High CPU usage on playing video files
Debian's Chromium builds for Stretch and Buster have never supported vaapi, and neither have official Ubuntu builds. Read the changelogs and look at the patchsets before claiming that.
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Re: High CPU usage on playing video files
VA-API is unsupported by the Chromium developers: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/is ... ?id=137247
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Re: High CPU usage on playing video files
The Debian testing version supports vaapi via a patch, and I left it in for the MX 19 backport. Works so far, and no complaints about it so far from those here using my port from the OBS repo. I have a money-back guarantee, of course. 
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Re: High CPU usage on playing video files
I don't see any problem with high CPU usage for browser videos as long as they play. Good to give CPU some exercise so it grows strong muscles.
If I want vaapi, I'll download the video and play it with MPV.
If I want vaapi, I'll download the video and play it with MPV.
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