Simple: When the guys who maintain and improve VLC decide it is worth it. QuickSync showed up on 2nd generation Core i series processors and will continue to be only on those processors. When the VLC guys think that Sandy Bridge and later Core. To enable the GPU acceleration option on your Mac, open VLC media player and find the Preferences option in VLC menu. Here, you’ll need to find the Input/Codecs tab and look for the option.
VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, AVC, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg.) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. Probably the nicest thing about VLC is the fact that it includes wide variety of video and audio codecs within the program itself, meaning that for most purposes, user doesn't have to install separate code packs in order to play videos or music on PC. VLC can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
I am running Ubuntu 12.10 on a Dell Latitude E5530, and I am unable to get hardware accelerated video decoding running in VLC player. I've ticked the hardware acceleration option in the settings of VLC, installed all libva, libdrm and vaapi related packages, yet the CPU usage indicates me it's still not active.
The CPU usage during the playback of a 720p video is 40-80%, where I would expect to see a lot lower usage on my machine. Can anyone give me some advice on how to get it working?