Accelerated Video Playback: Difference between revisions

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

Installation

Intel

/etc/nixos/configuration.nix

{
  hardware.opengl = {
    enable = true;
    extraPackages = with pkgs; [
      intel-media-driver # For Broadwell 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
}

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

/etc/nixos/configuration.nix

{
  hardware.opengl.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#Enable GPU accelerated video decoding (VA-API).

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 contains example configuration for different hardware.

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-This page is meant to help with techniques for getting accelerated video playback working in NixOS. This is generally done via libva and vaapi (and sometimes vdpau).
+Accelerated video playback in NixOS is generally done by adding relevant packages to {{nixos:option|hardware.opengl.extraPackages}}.
-This is done by adding relevant <code>libva</code>-related packages to the <code>hardware.opengl.extraPackages</code> option.
+== Installation ==
+=== Intel ===
-Additionally, the <code>intel-vaapi-driver</code> (previously <code>vaapiIntel</code>) package can be overridden to enable [https://github.com/01org/intel-hybrid-driver Intel's Hybrid Driver].
+{{file|/etc/nixos/configuration.nix|nix|<nowiki>
-Intel users also can enable <code>intel-media-driver</code>. It can be used at runtime with <code>LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=iHD mpv ...</code> for example, if you use Mic92's mpv settings below.
-Sample Intel configuration:
-<syntaxHighlight lang=nix>
 {
-  ...
-  nixpkgs.config.packageOverrides = pkgs: {
-    intel-vaapi-driver = pkgs.intel-vaapi-driver.override { enableHybridCodec = true; };
-  };
    hardware.opengl = {
      enable = true;
      extraPackages = with pkgs; [
-       intel-media-driver # LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=iHD
+       intel-media-driver # For Broadwell or newer processors. LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=iHD
-       intel-vaapi-driver # LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=i965 (older but works better for Firefox/Chromium)
+       intel-vaapi-driver # For older processors. LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=i965
-      libvdpau-va-gl
      ];
    };
-   environment.sessionVariables = { LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME = "iHD"; }; # Force intel-media-driver
+   environment.sessionVariables = { LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME = "iHD"; }; # Optionally, set the environment variable
-  ...
 }
-</syntaxHighlight>
+</nowiki>}}
+For 32-bit support, use {{nixos:option|hardware.opengl.extraPackages32}}:
+{{file|/etc/nixos/configuration.nix|nix|<nowiki>
+{
+  hardware.opengl.extraPackages32 = with pkgs.pkgsi686Linux; [ intel-vaapi-driver ];
+}
+</nowiki>}}
+=== AMD ===
-bit example:
+AMD configuration (at least for Ryzen 5 iGPUs) works out of the box:
-<syntaxhighlight lang="nix">
-hardware.opengl.extraPackages32 = with pkgs.pkgsi686Linux; [ intel-vaapi-driver ];
-</syntaxhighlight>
-AMD configuration (at least for Ryzen 5 iGPUs) works out of the box:<syntaxhighlight lang="nix">
+{{file|/etc/nixos/configuration.nix|nix|<nowiki>
 {
    hardware.opengl.enable = true;
 }
-</syntaxhighlight>
+</nowiki>}}
-== Prepared 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]
 == Testing your configuration ==
 You can test your configuration by running: <code>nix-shell -p libva-utils --run vainfo</code>
-See [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hardware_video_acceleration#Verification Hardware video acceleration: Verification (Arch Wiki)] for more information.
+See [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hardware_video_acceleration#Verification Arch Linux wiki#Hardware video acceleration] for more information.
 == Applications ==
-===Chromium===
+=== Chromium ===
-See [[Chromium#Enable GPU accelerated video decoding (VA-API) | Chromium]].
+See [[Chromium#Enable GPU accelerated video decoding (VA-API)]].
 === Firefox ===
-See [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Firefox#Hardware_video_acceleration Firefox#Hardware_video_acceleration (ArchWiki)].
+See [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Firefox#Hardware_video_acceleration Arch Linux wiki#Firefox].
-===[[MPV]]===
+=== MPV ===
-You can place the following configuration in <code>~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf</code>
+You can place the following configuration in {{ic|~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf}}:
-for mpv to use hardware acceleration for VP9 on Intel Broadwell (and probably later):
 <syntaxHighlight lang=ini>
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 vo=gpu
 profile=gpu-hq
+gpu-context=wayland ; On wayland only
 </syntaxHighlight>
-With Wayland, you need to nudge mpv to do the right thing:
+See [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/mpv#Hardware_video_acceleration Arch Linux wiki#mpv].
-<syntaxHighlight lang=ini>
-gpu-context=wayland
-</syntaxHighlight>
-This is based on the [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/mpv#Hardware_video_acceleration Arch Linux mpv article].
 == 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] contains example configuration for different hardware.