libvdpau ☆

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Description:
Open source Video Decode and Presentation API library

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Multimedia

Tags: video multimedia gpu driver playback

Install: brew install libvdpau

About:
Libvdpau is an open-source library designed to provide the Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix-like systems. It acts as a hardware-accelerated bridge between video players and the GPU, offloading video decoding tasks to reduce CPU usage. This enables smoother playback of high-resolution video formats like H.264 and HEVC on supported hardware.

Key Features:

Hardware-accelerated video decoding
VAAPI and VDPAU backend support
OpenGL-based video rendering
Zero-copy texture transfer

Use Cases:

High-performance video playback in media players
Reducing CPU load during 4K video streaming

Alternatives:

VAAPI – Intel's Video Acceleration API, often used as a backend for Libvdpau on Intel hardware
Vulkan Video – Modern low-overhead API gaining support for hardware video decoding

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 16, 2025 10:40am		0	VERSION_BUMP	9e112af1
Sep 17, 2023 10:22am		0	VERSION_BUMP	579ba0f8