how to enable vdpau

[davidstoll]

Hi, I'm trying to get hardware acceleration (vdpau) working with vlc in Linux.

Can you tell me what the command line switches are to enable it...or enable it permanently via the gui or config file?

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

vlc --ffmpeg-hw

If it says the option is unknown, then your VLC was built without HW acceleration support.

[davidstoll]

I found it.

In Tools -> Preferences -> Input & Codecs

I just checked the box to "Use GPU Acceleration (Experimental)".