Broadcom Crystal Hd

[steveng1fr]

Hi There,

I've just bought à broadcom crystal hd 70015 card and plugged it into an msi atom nettop with win xp sp3.
I've done a few test of H264 content but vlc 2.0 does not use the hardware decoder to render.
How to enable this hardware in Videolan ?

Thanks.
StevenG

[Arite]

If you don't already have the Crystal HD driver get it from Broadcom's site here.

Then try adding:

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--codec crystalhd

To VLC's command line. You can add that to VLC's shortcut (right-click shortcut >> Properties, add that to the "Target" after vlc.exe).

So for example:

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"C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" --codec crystalhd

And try a video file.

Arite.

[steveng1fr]

Thanks for your answers,

I'm gonna try this.

But i was thinking that we need to use the lgpl files includes by Broadcom for HW Acceleration in VLC, no ?

StevenG

[Arite]

AFAIK VLC already supports Crystal HD cards, it was added in VLC 2.0.0 (source here):

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* Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards

Also see jb's post here:
https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.ph ... 20#p324893

If the current version, 2.0.8, or a nightly/RC build of 2.1.0 doesn't work then older build linked from here should hopefully work:
http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/win ... 1219-0202/

Arite.