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It's hard to find help for settings and use of VLC, or for any other media player for that matter. You have a wide choice of settings, but with a lot of these choices you haven't the faintest idea what they mean. Similar topic here I suspect it would be better to ask about contributing in a limited...

DXVA support now has a status of closed. https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/151#comment:5 Does that mean VLC 1.1 supports it? Or that support is no longer considered necessary as some other approach such as openCL is to be used? Apparently DXVA is being ported from Media player classic - HC to ffd...

Have you tried viewtopic.php?f=14&t=62766#p220016

will hardware decode via graphics card (such as radeon HD series ) be supported in some future release Maybe. Probably need to wait for ffdshow to support openCL though. See http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=9647 http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=42328&start=15 h...

And I'm pretty sure the answer here is "no" too, but there's no way to get VLC to use hardware acceleration through my video card, is there? I've got a quad core, is there any way to make VLC to use all 4 so it stops stuttering? I believe the answer to both is currently no but both may ch...

See http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=9647 and http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=55355 I thought VLC did not use / used limited video card hardware acceleration for h.264 decoding but it maybe introduced with v1.1 I find media player classic does currently support vid...

Thread reference I think the distribution of developpers per OS is much more relevant (for June 2009): Linux: a dozen (80%) MacOS X: 3 (20%) Windows: 0 (0%) other: 0 (0%) This is rather disturbing information. Makes me wonder if there is an element of truth in datool coments No. Just no. It's easie...

joe average user will not try to search for hours for what should be listed at the top of a FAQ. Everyone asks themselves different questions so would want different things at the top of the faq VLC is a great tool but the help and documentation suck badly :( Given VLC is a community project, I wou...

The *nix and mac OS builds i actually hear are quite reliable; the best media player for those respective OS's period. However windows .... is a bit of a different story. And unfortunately that's where the majority of the users pool into VLC. VLC works reasonably well to specification for me on XP....

I had a look there and clearly there is lots of activity related to performance improvement by interfacing to graphics card hardware acceleration (unfortunately there appears to be a bias to unix interfaces without corresponding support for equivalent windows interfaces). Looks like we may have sup...

I've got a 1.8gh P4 with 512mb ddr and a geforce fx 5200 128mb video card. This beast of a computer handles 720p without any problems but takes it hard [plays a bit choppy] when i try and play 1080p ... I've got another comp [ht p4@3.0gh with onboard garbage video and 2 gigs ram] that plays 1080p n...

OpenMAX is currently embedded -centric, and it is not clear that it would spread to desktops. And it looks rather nasty if we end up having to support both OpenCL and OpenMAX standards from the same consortium to do the exact same thing :( ... VLC does not implement any non-trivial codec internally...

DxVA is very DirectShow oriented and VLC isn't. True but AMD's X-Video Bitstream Acceleration (XvBA) can apparently be used with the binary ATI Linux driver and is very similar (if not identical) to DXVA. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_xvmc_xvba&num=1 This may make s...

I'm no expert, but have a read of http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=9647 I assume you have already seen http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=42328 I suspect VLC is not using graphics card video acceleration but with 10% CPU usage that is probably not an issue for you. If...

Sad when you have to try & answer your own questions but here goes Any one worked out if openGL or openCL has support for hardware video decoding?... openmax sounds as it knows about H264, ... don't know if the support would include hardware acceleration on common graphics cards. Reading through...

You will need to provide considerably more information if you want your problem solved. If you intention was just to vent, I hope you now feel better :) How about specifying what operating system you run, what hardware you have, what type of file you are trying to play, what version of vlc it occurs...

Well, DxVA is not impossible in VLC, but quite difficult, that's it. NP I really appreciate the effort you put into VLC and believe it is an excellent product. I'm just trying to see how best I can use it. A good read here: http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3488 Thanks for the reference...

DxVA is very DirectShow oriented and VLC isn't. But any good idea is welcomed. Thank you for the insight, I appreciate knowing where VLC is and is not heading. However the knowledge also saddens me. VLC under XP on my old hardware results in 100% cpu usage and choppy HD video Media Player classic w...

Well... actually some of the support could be done via CUDA, ¿no? Sounds like it is more aimed at non graphical use of graphics processors to me, so it may not be the ideal starting point http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA I know that OpenCL support will be relatively easy to implement (it'll be in ...

From http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=42328&start=15#p152183 My graphics card has on board video decoding, does VideoLan support, or will it support this? This post suggests it doesn't and isn't likely to in the foreseeable future http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&...

Hello I have western digital network drive which I store my movies etc on. The notebooks in the house view these movies through my wireless network. ... Currently, the streaming is okay, a bit jittery.... The data rate required by video is relatively low by local network standards. But the local pr...

0.9.x blows. 0.9.x is definitly a mess ... I disagree strongly with this sentiment VLC is a wonderful program. I am extremely grateful for the ongoing development. New versions are coming out all the time and are clearly moving in the right direction. And all this is before giving any consideration...

I'm a little confused about what is going on. Will there be a 0.9.3 released for Windows? The nightly builds have a 0.9.4 Does this mean the windows release has skipped 0.9.3? If so, is this a problem? The nightly builds have had a 10.0.0 for some time. How does this fit in? Is it a splinter group o...

Is it even possible? After much googling I saw that other people had done it but there were converting to WAV which I don't want. Thanks for your help. I use mediamonkey http://www.mediamonkey.com/ Play flac files on htpc When copying files to mp3 player, mediamonkey automatically converts the file...

Personal video database (PVD) actually works very well with videoLAN http://www.videodb.info I use PVD to catalogue my movies and import data from imdb, allmovie, and amazon. I then choose which moivie I want to watch using PVD When the play button in PVD is clicked it then used the default player f...