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No hardware acceleration on VLC 2.1.4 x64 on win 8.1 IntelHD

Postby hajj_3 » 05 Jun 2014 22:43

I am using windows 8.1 update 1 x64 and vlc player 2.1.4 x64, hardware acceleration does not work, i have tried with 360p, 480p and 720p files. 720p can use as much as 32% cpu. The driver is the built in driver in windows as intel doesn't offer updated drivers for intel 1st gen core i3/i5/i7 apus, i'm using the laptop core i5 430m 1st gen apu. The driver isn't the problem as MPC-HC plays the 720p file with 1.5% cpu and shows "Playing [H/W]" in the status bar too.

Do the developers already know about this problem or not, if so do we know when it will be fixed? Hardware acceleration works perfectly in win 7 sp1 x64 btw.

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Here is my log: http://pastebin.com/eKTRAXMV

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Re: No hardware acceleration on VLC 2.1.4 x64 on win 8.1 Int

Postby hajj_3 » 06 Jun 2014 15:57

I have just my post with my log, hope this helps. I created an official bug seeing as no-one replied to say whether this is a known bug or not: https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/11578#ticket

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Re: No hardware acceleration on VLC 2.1.4 x64 on win 8.1 Int

Postby Rémi Denis-Courmont » 07 Jun 2014 18:32

Your log screams of disable hardware decoding acceleration in the VLC preferences.
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Re: No hardware acceleration on VLC 2.1.4 x64 on win 8.1 Int

Postby hajj_3 » 07 Jun 2014 19:08

It turns out that Tools-Preferences-Input/Codecs-"hardware accelerated decoding" was disabled. Why is this disabled by default? Also i use the advanced settings mode normally, where is this setting when you choose the advanced mode? Fortunately i can now play 1080p with 6.5% cpu now.

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Re: No hardware acceleration on VLC 2.1.4 x64 on win 8.1 Int

Postby Ludrax » 07 Jun 2014 21:04

where is this setting when you choose the advanced mode?
you can enter it in search field :arrow:
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