Comskip Support Forum

Hey! I'm back. When I first tried using vdpau with the $25 eBay card - a GeForce GT 610 - I got errors that seemed to indicate vdpau couldn't be initiated. I couldn't figure out wtf not, and I got distracted by other, less frustrating problems. Then about a month ago I realized that although the car...

Yep, I'm looking at GeForce 520's with a PCI-e x16 interface: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=GeForce+GT+520&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&_fsrp=1&_sop=15 I'm too new on these forums; can't use url tags yet. Also, I need to set my default setting to follow threads I post...

Oh nevermind . Turns out it's pretty easy to find an old nVidia card with the full VDPAU feature set. There are a bunch for $25 on eBay.

It looks like ffmpeg supports VAAPI out of the box pretty well: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/HWAccelIntro . So could it be enabled in Comskip just by building with the right ffmpeg?

I'm on Linux, and thinking of buying a video card or CPU with integrated video capability for the purpose of accelerating Comskip. I cloned the Git repo and built without issues. Running from the CLI with --help params I see that there is HW support, but it doesn't look like the VAAPI is supported: ...

In the build announcements thread, Erik said:
"As of build 0.82.004 Comskip will only run on Windows 10 due to issues in msys/mingw used to build libavcodec.
This is not something I can solve."

http://www.kaashoek.com/comskip/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=418&start=30#p9148