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Date:      Mon, 19 Oct 2015 17:07:07 +0200
From:      Juan =?iso-8859-1?b?UmFt824=?= Molina Menor <listjm@club.fr>
To:        Arto Pekkanen <isoa@kapsi.fi>
Cc:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Success! Was: Testing the new i915 driver (HD Graphics 4400)
Message-ID:  <5625071B.1020202@club.fr>
In-Reply-To: <5624F6F3.1090901@kapsi.fi>
References:  <of89cjrnwte659h4soymbopv.1445176143433@email.android.com> <add65c83cf966f5cd4d358f3ba3af305@kapsi.fi> <5624F31E.4090904@club.fr> <5624F6F3.1090901@kapsi.fi>

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> I am glad I was able to be of assistance :)
>
> Does Vimb use multimedia/gstreamer1 or multimedia/gstreamer as codec backend?

GStreamer1: vimb-gtk2 depends indeed on webkit-gtk2, which depends on 
gstreamer1-plugins, etc.

> If it uses multimedia/gstreamer, then there's nothing you can do, since multimedia/gstreamer does NOT have VAAPI plugin. multimedia/gstreamer has only VDPAU plugin (for nVidia GPUs), but not VAAPI.
>
> On the other hand, multimedia/gstreamer1 has multimedia/gstreamer1-vaapi plugin, which should enable hardware decoding.
 >
> So, if Vimb uses multimedia/gstreamer1, then just install multimedia/gstreamer1-vaapi package and you should get proper hardware decoding. If this does not help, then the fault is in GStreamer1 filter priorities.

Yes, I have gstreamer1-vaapi installed, but playing quality is lower 
with vimb than with mpv and CPU usage higher. Oh well…

Best regards,
Juan



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