📼 Addie’s Analog Emporium 🌐•4mo ago

Video Player w/ Hardware Accelerated AV1 Decoding on Linux (Nvidia GPU)

Question As the title suggests, I'm looking for a video player that can playback AV1 encoded video files with hardware acceleration via an Nvidia GPU on Linux (Ubuntu 24.04 LTS). Personally I've used VLC Player on Windows for like 2 decades, and since v3.0.18 it's had Hardware Accelerated AV1 Decoding support on Windows. I install it with winget install VLC.VLC and it just works, no additional configuration needed. On Linux however... when selecting any of the "Hardware-accelerated decoding" options I get either poor performance or a black screen. - VA-API video decoder - Poor playback performance (anything over 1080p freezes). - VDPAU video decoder - Black screen on all codecs. - Disabled - Poor playback performance (anything over 1080p freezes). I installed an open source VAAPI driver for Nvidia on Linux. But I can't find anyone using it for anything outside of web browsers. I'm looking for a Video Player Desktop application that'll playback AV1 smoothly, at this point I'm open to switching of VLC Player if anything else can get the job done. Relevant System Info - OS - Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (X11) - Motherboard - ASRock Taichi X399M - CPU - AMD Threadripper 2970WX - GPU - Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti

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ninbura•4mo ago

Answering my own question - Use mpv. It relies on FFmpeg, and the version installable with apt on Ubuntu 24.04 is compiled with Nvidia headers. I created a config with these options, works perfectly.

# ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf
hwdec=nvdec
vo=gpu

# ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf
hwdec=nvdec
vo=gpu

EposVox // Addie•4mo ago

I was just about to suggest MPV lol

ninbura•4mo ago

Weird how hard it was for me to find this answer, been trying to figure this out for months. I'm sure I just wasn't using the right queries, but also Linux things. Also note - I had to use the apt version of mpv, I initially installed mpv with snap and couldn't get it working. I know snap sandboxes stuff, probably a way to configure access of a snap package, but I couldn't figure it out. sudo apt install ffmpeg mpv easiest for sure.

gregandcin•4mo ago

Snaps are very hit or miss, not a fan lol. There are several MPV frontends you can try as well. I would suggest Celluloid since you're probably on GNOME

gregandcin•4mo ago

https://github.com/celluloid-player/celluloid

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GitHub - celluloid-player/celluloid: A simple GTK+ frontend for mpv

A simple GTK+ frontend for mpv. Contribute to celluloid-player/celluloid development by creating an account on GitHub.

ninbura•4mo ago

Oh that's interesting, I'll check it out. Thanks 🙏

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Video Player w/ Hardware Accelerated AV1 Decoding on Linux (Nvidia GPU)