Here's what I did to get VA-API working (sort of...):
1) Install VLC_1.0.0 and make sure it's working properly before going to the next step
2) Install libva_0.30.4+sds3 (http://www.splitted-desktop.com/~gbeauchesne/libva/) by doing the following:
$ tar zxvf libva_0.30.4-1+sds3.tar.gz
$ cd libva-0.30.4
$ for p in debian/patches/*.patch; do patch -p1 < $p; done
$ autoreconf -f -i
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install
(Thanks to Gwenole Beauchesne, who provided me with the above instructions
)In order to install libva, I had to install other libraries -- these are pretty straight forward since the error message(s) indicated what was missing.
4) Install vdpau-video_0.3.2 (http://www.splitted-desktop.com/~gbeauc ... pau-video/) -- just do the usual 'make' and 'make install'
** NOTE: up to this point, make sure libva is properly installed by running vainfo
5) Patch ffmpeg with h264-vaapi (http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffm ... 71061.html):
a) Copy h264-vaapi.patch to ffmpeg project root
b) Appy patch:
$ patch -p0 < h264-vaapi.patch
d) Compile and install FFmpeg:
$ ./configure --enable-gpl --enable-postproc <...and/or other optional configurations...>
$ make
$ make install
** NOTE: after ./configure, make sure you see 'h264_vaapi' under 'hw_accel'
6) Patch VLC with VA-API (http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/v ... 58798.html)
a) Copy the patch to VLC project root (in my case I called it "vlc-vaapi.patch")
b) Apply patch:
$ patch -p1 < vlc-vaapi.patch
c) Edit vlc-config.in.in and add "-lX11 -lva -lva-x11" to libs=""
d) $ ./configure <...optional configurations...>
e) modify <vlc_root>/modules/codec/avcodec/Makefile to include vaapi.h and vaapi.c (this is a bit confusing, but in short, just search for 'avcodec.c', replicate those lines, and rename to vaapi)
f) compile:
$ make
$ make install
And there you go! You now have VLC with VA-API (which uses VDPAU as backend)
