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[Locked] Vaapi use for Intel Sandy Bridge
williammanda English 5 matttbe [Read]
20 February 2012 à 01:53

williammanda, Saturday 18 February 2012 à 15:23


Subscription date : 17 February 2012
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Cairo ver - 3.0.0.0beta1
With effects (no unity)
Ubuntu 12.4 64 bit
Using opengl
Compiz (what comes standard)
Gnome
Intel 2405S Sandy Bridge w/ 4GB ram

Is vaapi being used for Sandy Bridge processors? If so, how could I tell or verify?
Thanks

SQP, Saturday 18 February 2012 à 17:29


Subscription date : 03 July 2010
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Vaapi is used to benefit from hardware movie decoder, so it will only be usefull to a video player.
Cairo-dock use OpenGL to get the best from hardware 3D acceleration.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Acceleration_API

williammanda, Saturday 18 February 2012 à 17:45


Subscription date : 17 February 2012
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Thanks for the info!

SQP :
Cairo-dock use OpenGL to get the best from hardware 3D acceleration.


So does cairo-dock utilize the gpu at all or just the cpu?

SQP, Saturday 18 February 2012 à 18:35


Subscription date : 03 July 2010
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if you use the OpenGL mode, this will mostly depend on your video drivers. Consider that GPU should be used when available.
I guess such recent Intel hardware should have really decent 3D drivers, so would use the GPU acceleration when needed.

williammanda, Saturday 18 February 2012 à 18:37


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So how could I verify that the gpu is being used?

matttbe, Monday 20 February 2012 à 01:53


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If you're using the OpenGL backend, you're using the GPU (except if your video card is too old but it's not the case here )

Problems at use | Problèmes à l'utilisation

Subjects Author Language Messages Last message
[Locked] Vaapi use for Intel Sandy Bridge
williammanda English 5 matttbe [Read]
20 February 2012 à 01:53


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