I need to use VideoLAN VLC on my Pine64, with Armbian Buster.

When I play an H264 mkv video, I got images too slow, and then it stops (like freeze). I think there is no hardware acceleration.

When I start with mpv through the command:

 

export VDPAU_DRIVER=sunxi
mpv --vo=vpdau --hwdec=vdpau --hwdec-codecs=all filename.mp4

I got this:

Playing: test.mkv
 (+) Video --vid=1 (*) (f) 'TST' (h264 1920x1080 23.976fps)
 (+) Audio --aid=1 --alang=eng (*) (f) 'ENG EAC-3 6ch @640kb/s' (eac3 6ch 48000Hz)
 (+) Subs  --sid=1 --slang=eng (*) (f) 'ENG FORCED' (subrip)
     Subs  --sid=2 --slang=eng 'ENG FULL' (subrip)
File tags:
 Title: test
[vo/vdpau] Error when calling vdp_device_create_x11: 25
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (--vo) device.
Video: no video

How can I play an H264 video well? I need it for laboratory and classroom using a projector for programming learning.

mainline kernel doesn't support VDPAU video acceleration, it uses libva.

 

please check: http://linux-sunxi.org/Sunxi-Cedrus

 

if you want to use VDPAU, please download legacy image with kernel 3.14.

Ok, so I can try with libva.

Trying to compile the libva_v4l2_request, I got this error:

 

Error on compiling libva_v4l2_request

 

Can you help me?

please update/recompile libva to latest github release.

thanks @ning, I've found this repo:

https://github.com/intel/libva

Is this the right library to recompile?