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Next install vainfo package via command: sudo apt install vainfo
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You can firstly open terminal from start menu (click ‘Activities’ and search terminal). The VA-API may work out-of-the-box in Ubuntu. If you installed NVIDIA proprietary driver via ‘Additional Drivers’ utility, this will only work when you choose ‘Intel (Power Saving)’ mode in NVIDIA Prime settings. NOTE: VA-API does not work on NVIDIA via proprietary drivers as mentioned above. And while NVENC/NVDEC is used for NVIDIA GPU only, we usually use VA-API for hardware video acceleration.įirefox pop-up video encoding/decoding via Intel GPU Verify VA-API: The VDPAU API supports both AMD and NVIDIA, but has no support in Firefox or Chromium. And it is widely supported by software, such as MPV uses va-api hardware acceleration for video playback by default if available. The VA-API supports Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA (via open-source Nouveau drivers) GPUs.
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#CHECK GRAPHICS CARD UBUNTU 18.04 HOW TO#
This tutorial shows how to enable hardware video acceleration (VA-API) for Firefox, so it uses the video card to decode/encode video to save power.