Hardware Video Acceleration - Linux

Overview

This article talks about using hardware video acceleration so the video card encodes/decodes video offloading the CPU and saving power.

Install intel-media-driver

To install the Intel media driver

sudo pacman -S intel-media-driver

Enable acceleration MPV

For mpv, make sure that decoding and video acceleration is enabled. To do so:

  1. Create or edit the user config file in ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf with the following settings:

    vo=gpu
hwdec=auto

  2. Reboot your PC.

Verification

Use intel_gpu_top and make sure that when you play video using tools like VLC or MPV, the video bar is active.

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