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What are the appropriate plugins and how do I find out if I have them? I have an Intel card and normally use mplayer-vaapi[1] to get hardware acceleration for decoding.

[1] https://launchpad.net/~sander-vangrieken/+archive/vaapi

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At a minimum you'll need gstreamer1.0 and gst-plugins-ugly[1]. Perhaps gst-libav[2] would be an alternative to plugins-ugly.

OT: Check out http://mpv.io/. It's a forked mplayer2 with native support for libva:

  mpv --hwdec=vaapi --vo=vaapi

[1] http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/plugins.html

[2] http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/modules/gst-libav.html

I believe it is Gstreamer 0.10.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=806917

Gstreamer 1.0 is a work in progress.

Yes, that's right. Works with gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins on Arch Linux.

I'm not sure we have done the necessary work for vaapi to work sanely. However, software h264/aac video work just fine, here. mp3 also works on this release (same deal, you have to have the right gstreamer plugins), iirc (it certainly works on Nightly, which is what I use).

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