How to Install vdpau-va-driver in Ubuntu 18.04



Install vdpau-va-driver by entering the following commands in the terminal:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install vdpau-va-driver

Description:

VDPAU-based backend for VA API

The VA-API (Video Acceleration API) enables hardware accelerated video decode/encode at various entry-points (VLD, IDCT, Motion Compensation etc.) for the prevailing coding standards today (MPEG-2, MPEG-4 ASP/H.263, MPEG-4 AVC/H.264, and VC-1/VMW3). It provides an interface to fully expose the video decode capabilities in today's GPUs. . This package contains the VDPAU-based backend driver for use with the VA API library.

Homepage: http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/vaapi/

Version: 0.7.4-6ubuntu1

Section: universe/x11