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ok, problem solved, the stream I captured via satellite (ASTRA UHD TEST) and it's 10-Bit HEVC.
My hardware however only supports 8-Bit HEVC.

Would it be feasable somehow to drop the 2 bits of every pixel and get HW decoding working by loosing colorspace resolution?

Hi Rémi,

I tried to compile ffmpeg with hevc vaapi hw decoding support, but it seems hevc_vaapi is only available as an Encoder not as a Decoder like h264_vaapi is.
So I'm wondering what configure settings would enable hevc vaapi hw decoding in ffmpeg.

Hi Rémi! Thanks for your answer. I'm on Ubuntu 16.04 and I included the vlc master-daily PPA, so both should be up to date. It seems like I'm using the right HW and als the libva Version is correct. When opening h264 content I see that vlc opens vaapi, but for hevc content there is no such console m...

Hi, I'm wondering if HEVC should work now. According to these commist it should http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commit;h=df48e332f748fb05205476f53ed7a53fde13462e http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commit;h=93baf6e71a7aae85b45ee3c9e8ef597fbe8353f8 However it seems vaapi is not used when trying...