The 2015 is the year of the VA-API/VPP in VDR! The latest VA-API/VPP code is now available from Antti Seppälä's Github repositories instead of traditional patches and it comes at the moment in two flavors: The main VA-API/VPP development: https://github.com/pesintta/vdr-plugin-softhddevice (or https://github.com/pesintta/vdr-plugin-softhddevice/tree/vpp_support) the successor of the former v10 patch supports the va-api-glx output supports ffmpeg's libavfilters before and after GPU post-processing you can even mix yadif deinterlacer and VA-API color post-processing pre/postfilters are executed 25Hz, unless VPP deinterlacing is enabled. In this case the PostAvFilter is 50Hz. thou shall not modify frame rate nor resolution in avfilters! […] Example of required command line parameters: (Quelltext, 2 Zeilen) One can check the current GPU load with the intel_gpu_top application from x11-apps/intel-gpu-tools package: (Quelltext, 2 Zeilen) All credits go to Antti Seppälä for his superb work!