Accelerated Video Playback: Difference between revisions
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This page is meant to help with techniques for getting accelerated video playback working in NixOS. | This page is meant to help with techniques for getting accelerated video playback working in NixOS. | ||
This is done by adding relevant `libva`-related packages to the `hardware.opengl.extraPackages` option. | |||
Additionally, the `vaapiIntel` package can be overriden to enable [Intel's Hybrid Driver](https://github.com/01org/intel-hybrid-driver). | |||
Sample configuration: | Sample configuration: | ||
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{ | { | ||
... | ... | ||
nixpkgs.config.packageOverrides = pkgs: { | |||
vaapiIntel = pkgs.vaapiIntel.override { enableHybridCodec = true; }; | |||
}; | |||
hardware.opengl = { | hardware.opengl = { | ||
enable = true; | enable = true; | ||
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... | ... | ||
} | } | ||
== Prepared Hardware configuration == | == Prepared Hardware configuration == | ||
Sometimes different opengl packages are required to achieve full performance. You can check different configuration repositories for similar hardware configuration: | Sometimes different opengl packages are required to achieve full performance. You can check different configuration repositories for similar hardware configuration: | ||
* [https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware The NixOS-Hardware Repository] | * [https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware The NixOS-Hardware Repository] | ||