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Hardware acceleration for video playing and streaming on Raspberry Pi 2



I'm running Raspbian Jessie on a Raspberry Pi 2, but I'm not able to play video files using VLC and at the same time I can't stream HTLM5 videos using the web browser.
Now I'm trying to recompile VLC with hardware acceleration features and to use a different browser, but I need to use hardware acceleration for other software too such as Kaffeine or stuff like that.
Do you have any suggestion to enable the hardware acceleration by default on all the system?
Do I need to install any particular driver or change some configurations to use hardware acceleration for all the applications?
Thanks!


Solution

  • I reached the conclusion that is not possible to use the hardware acceleration for the whole system cause it's application dependent.