VLC Source Hardware Decoder Option

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john5788

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It looks like the VLC Source plugin uses the software decoder by default, even if the user's VLC preferences have a hardware decoder defined. As an example from ~/.config/vlc/vlcrc:

Code: 
# Hardware decoding (string)
avcodec-hw=vdpau_avcodec

Launching VLC and playing a video will respect this option, but the plugin from OBS doesn't. So I looked at running VLC on the command line and forcing that option. I'm able to choose between 3 different decoders successfully:
  • vlc --avcodec-hw=avcodec video.mp4 - This chooses the software decoder
  • vlc --avcodec-hw=vdpau_avcodec video.mp4 - This chooses the NVDEC hardware decoder through VDPAU
  • vlc --avcodec-hw=vaapi video.mp4 - This chooses Intel iGPU through VAAPI, another hardware decoder
It seems to me maybe we should have an open text field to allow the VLC plugin to pass --avcodec-hw with a parameter to let the user manually choose what decoder to use.
 
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