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Thanks for your help, lesson learnt .

I'm not using any patched libvlc. I just installed with apt-get from https://launchpad.net/~videolan/+archive/ubuntu/stable-daily Settings passed to libvlc 2.1.0: "--ignore-config", "--no-disable-screensaver", "--intf=dummy", "--album-art=0", "--no-media-...

This is not true. In V2.1, libvlc did not use hardware acceleration for decoding at all (SIMD aside) by default. Very strange. I have dozens of linux players that show the same behavior, VA-API is loaded and working. libvlc is being piloted by https://github.com/tjfontaine/node-vlc (using ffi). VLC...

I've just updated VLC and I am encountering this as well (on a modern NUC BayTrail based machine running Ubuntu 14.04). In the V2.1 branch, libvlc did defaulted to VAAPI for hardware decoding, and everything was working great. But since v2.2, it tries to use VDPAU and fails. I'm using latest oibaf i...