Accelerated Video Playback: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 14:05, 21 August 2024

Accelerated video playback in NixOS is generally done by adding relevant packages to hardware.opengl.extraPackages.

Installation

Intel

/etc/nixos/configuration.nix

{
  hardware.graphics = { # hardware.opengl in 24.05 and older 
    enable = true;
    extraPackages = with pkgs; [
      intel-media-driver # For Broadwell (2014) or newer processors. LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=iHD
      intel-vaapi-driver # For older processors. LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=i965
    ];
  };
  environment.sessionVariables = { LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME = "iHD"; }; # Optionally, set the environment variable
}

Note, intel-vaapi-driver still performs better for browsers (gecko/chromium based) on newer Skylake (2015) processors.^[1]

For 32-bit support, use hardware.graphics.extraPackages32:

/etc/nixos/configuration.nix

{
  # hardware.opengl.extraPackages32 in 24.05
  hardware.graphics.extraPackages32 = with pkgs.pkgsi686Linux; [ intel-vaapi-driver ];
}

AMD

AMD configuration (at least for Ryzen 5 iGPUs) works out of the box:

/etc/nixos/configuration.nix

{
  hardware.opengl.enable = true;
}

Testing your configuration

You can test your configuration by running: nix-shell -p libva-utils --run vainfo See Arch Linux wiki#Hardware video acceleration for more information.

Applications

Chromium

See Chromium#Accelerated_video_playback.

Firefox

See Arch Linux wiki#Firefox.

MPV

You can place the following configuration in ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf:

hwdec=auto-safe
vo=gpu
profile=gpu-hq
gpu-context=wayland ; On wayland only

See Arch Linux wiki#mpv.

Also see

Arch Linux wiki#Hardware video acceleration.
nixos-hardware has example configurations for various types of hardware.

↑ https://github.com/intel/media-driver/issues/1024

[1] ttps://github.com/intel/media-driver/issues/1024

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-This page is meant to help with techniques for getting accelerated video playback working in NixOS.
+<languages/>
+<translate>
+<!--T:1-->
+Accelerated video playback in NixOS is generally done by adding relevant packages to {{nixos:option|hardware.opengl.extraPackages}}.
+</translate>
-In particular, this will enable `vaapi` or `vdpau` for your system. You may not need all of the packages listed, but it seems to not hurt to include them all.
+<translate>
+== Installation == <!--T:18-->
+</translate>
+<translate>
+=== Intel === <!--T:19-->
+</translate>
+{{file|/etc/nixos/configuration.nix|nix|<nowiki>
+{
+  hardware.graphics = { # hardware.opengl in 24.05 and older
+    enable = true;
+    extraPackages = with pkgs; [
+      intel-media-driver # For Broadwell (2014) or newer processors. LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=iHD
+      intel-vaapi-driver # For older processors. LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=i965
+    ];
+  };
+  environment.sessionVariables = { LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME = "iHD"; }; # Optionally, set the environment variable
+}
+</nowiki>}}
+<translate>
+<!--T:2-->
+Note, <code>intel-vaapi-driver</code> still performs better for browsers (gecko/chromium based) on newer Skylake (2015) processors.<ref>https://github.com/intel/media-driver/issues/1024</ref>
+</translate>
-Sample configuration:
+<translate>
+<!--T:3-->
+For 32-bit support, use
+</translate> {{nixos:option|hardware.graphics.extraPackages32}}:
+{{file|/etc/nixos/configuration.nix|nix|<nowiki>
+{
+  # hardware.opengl.extraPackages32 in 24.05
+  hardware.graphics.extraPackages32 = with pkgs.pkgsi686Linux; [ intel-vaapi-driver ];
+}
+</nowiki>}}
+<translate>
+=== AMD === <!--T:4-->
-  {
+<!--T:5-->
-    ...
+AMD configuration (at least for Ryzen 5 iGPUs) works out of the box:
-    hardware.opengl = {
+</translate>
-      enable = true;
+{{file|/etc/nixos/configuration.nix|nix|<nowiki>
-      extraPackages = with pkgs; [
+{
-        vaapiIntel
+  hardware.opengl.enable = true;
-        vaapiVdpau
+}
-        libvdpau-va-gl
+</nowiki>}}
-      ];
+<translate>
-    };
+== Testing your configuration == <!--T:6-->
-    ...
-  }
+<!--T:7-->
+You can test your configuration by running: <code>nix-shell -p libva-utils --run vainfo</code>
+</translate>
+<translate>
+<!--T:8-->
+See [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hardware_video_acceleration#Verification Arch Linux wiki#Hardware video acceleration] for more information.
+</translate>
+<translate>
+== Applications == <!--T:9-->
+</translate>
+<translate>
+<!--T:10-->
+=== Chromium ===
+See [[Chromium#Accelerated_video_playback]].
+</translate>
+<translate>
+=== Firefox === <!--T:11-->
+<!--T:12-->
+See [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Firefox#Hardware_video_acceleration Arch Linux wiki#Firefox].
+</translate>
+<!--T:13-->
+<translate>
+=== MPV === <!--T:20-->
+</translate>
+<translate>
+<!--T:21-->
+You can place the following configuration in {{ic|~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf}}:
+</translate>
+<!--T:14-->
+<syntaxHighlight lang=ini>
+hwdec=auto-safe
+vo=gpu
+profile=gpu-hq
+gpu-context=wayland ; On wayland only
+</syntaxHighlight>
+<!--T:15-->
+<translate>
+<!--T:22-->
+See [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/mpv#Hardware_video_acceleration Arch Linux wiki#mpv].
+</translate>
+<translate>
+<!--T:16-->
+== Also see ==
+* [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hardware_video_acceleration Arch Linux wiki#Hardware video acceleration].
+* [https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware nixos-hardware] has example configurations for various types of hardware.
+</translate>
+[[Category:Video]]