No Hardware acceleration with vlc web plugin

[daeseok.youn]

Hi,

OS : window 8.1
VLC version : latest(2.1.3)
GPU : Intel graphics HD xxxx

I have been tried to play videos in chrome with vlc plugin.
First, I played a video(1080p) with VLC player.
With disabling an option for GPU acceleration : CPU usage about 40~50%.
With enabling an option for GPU acceleration : CPU usage about 20%

I made a sample for playing in chrome with vlc plugin.

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<script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function(){ var options = new Array(); options.push(":avcodec-hw=dxva2.lo"); var vlc = document.getElementById("video1"); vlc.playlist.clear(); vlc.playlist.add(<test file>, "test", options); // 1080p file. vlc.playlist.next(); vlc.playlist.play(); }); </script>

Above an option for vlc.playlist.add() is same as a configuration for GPU acceleration in VLC player.
But it doesn't work properly, so cpu usage is too high(50%). It seems to be not affect options for vlc.playlist.add().

Questions
1. How to enable HW acceleration(DXVA2.0) for plugin?
2. Actually, I am trying to modify vlc code to affect an option which is dxva2.0 by defalut.
Is it possible to enable that option and also can play in web plugin with H/W acceleration?

[kd8eyf]

I am also interested in enabling hardware acceleration in the web plugin.
Is this currently possible?

[RSATom]

Are you sure want use NPAPI plugin even knowing NPAPI will be completely removed from Chrome at September (i.e. less than two months)?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

PPAPI ftw

[RSATom]

@jb, somebody works on PPAPI Vlc Plugin?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

@jb, somebody works on PPAPI Vlc Plugin?

Maybe

[RSATom]

it will be surprise

[kd8eyf]

Are you sure want use NPAPI plugin even knowing NPAPI will be completely removed from Chrome at September (i.e. less than two months)?

Yes, I am sure.
We have frozen our chrome installs to support NPAPI, and currently looking at converting to firefox.
I just need to know if the web plugin has any support for hardware acceleration, and if so, how to enable it?

[RSATom]

Unfortunately Vlc Web Plugins doesn't have any option to enable hardware acceleration. So, you have following options:
1) modify plugin sources to add this option;
2) use WebChimera with

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<param name="hw-accel" value="true" />

(and maybe in FBVLC compatibility mode, if you need it most similar to original Vlc Web Plugins);