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sashoalm
Asked: 2012-02-07 10:51:47 +0800 CST

Command line flag for mplayer to use hardware acceleration?

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I can make VLC use hardware decoding with 

vlc --ffmpeg-hw video.mkv

Is there an equivalent flag for mplayer?

command-line mplayer vaapi

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  1. Best Answer

    Mind you if you have an nVidia graphics card you should not only specify the -vo device but also give a -vc setting. On my own system I give the following on the commandline:

    mplayer -vo vdpau filename

    (replacing 'filename' with the actual name of your file of course) and place the following in ~/.mplayer/config:

    [vo.vdpau]
vc=ffmpeg12vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau,ffvc1vdpau,ffh264vdpau,ffodivxvdpau,

    but there are several different ways of doing this. This method allows you to use different video out devices with MPlayer but will give proper -vc values when you specify -vo vdpau from the commandline.

    Hope this helps :).

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  2. The command is -vo (video out). For my nVidia network card with hardware acceleration, I use -vo vdpau.

    To see all of the video out processors, see mplayer.1.

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