Up until fairly recently I had a number of issues with VLC and vaapi / vdpau, but now it all seems to work well. I even have working accelerated video in Chromi

Up until fairly recently I had a number of issues with VLC and vaapi / vdpau, but now it all seems to work well. I even have working accelerated video in Chromium by removing the GPU blacklist and it works fine. The only things missing now on the video front for Linux is good encoder support, but I can get that right now with ffmpeg - its just missing in a lot of capture software. Though we really should all converge to openmax at some point. Like, all encode / decode with openmax in the future. It just makes bloody sense.