VDPAU

This article describes the setup of VDPAU (Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix).

Installation
Portage knows the global USE flag vdpau for enabling support for VDPAU in other packages. Enabling this USE flag will pull in automatically:

The USE flags of libvdpau are:

After setting this you want to update your system so the changes take effect:

Other Software

 * : shows if VDPAU is supported.
 * VDPAU can be used as a VAAPI backend.

Configuration
You may need to tweak the config files of the programs, you can make use of VDPAU.

mplayer
Detect the available VDPAU video codecs:

Add them to the mplayer config file, e.g.: