Hardware acceleration under Linux does not work

Report · May 29, 2011

Ubuntu 11.04 64bit

Chromium and Flash 10.3.181.14 (32bit using nspluginwrapper)

Nvidia GT210

VDPAU working as expected

Right clicking on YouTube videos which supposedly have Stage Video acceleration enabled (link below) and viewing video info shows 'Software Rendering' and cpu is still around 60%.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou6_MkIvKOo&feature=player_embedded

Has anyone got this working? High cpu hints that it's not working.

Curiously, the Big Buck Bunny test video on Adobe's site shows Stage Video = true (cpu still around 60%) yet the same video on YouTube maxes the cpu.

I have both the options in /etc/adobe/mms.cfg

EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1

OverrideGPUValidation=1

Getting incredibly frustrated with this.

Report · Jul 15, 2011

I was having the same issue until I found this post: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1758566

Essentially I needed to use nvidia's vdpau libraries's by creating a symbolic link to them (obviously you want to reference the version of the library that you have):

sudo ln -s /usr/lib32/nvidia-current/vdpau/libvdpau.so.275.09.07 /usr/lib32/libvdpau.so