VLC VAAPI - VideoLAN WikiThe VLC framework can use your graphic card (aka GPU) to decode H.264 streams (wrongly called HD videos) under certain circumstances. VLC, in its modular approach and its transcoding/streaming capabilities, does decoding in GPU at the decoding stage only and then gets the data back to go to the other stages (streaming, filtering or plug any video output after that). What that means is that, compar
