Making VP9 hardware decoding work with Kaby Lake and Arch Linux
May 29, 2017
Kaby Lake processors come with Intel HD graphics chips that allows for you to do hardware decoding of VP9 and H.265 10 bit videos. Check the chart below for more details.
Intel Allows you to access their Intel GPU by using the VA-API, the Arch Linux wiki has a good deal of information on VA-API and VDPAU here.
Installing Drivers Let’s install the VA-API with
sudo pacman -S libva-intel-driver
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