HW acceleration for video on youtube and movies in classic video players (HEVC, 4K, etc.) on newer Intel processors

Hello everybody, this post I founded for the problem which could be for many users with new weaker processors or with other Intel computers with integrated graphic. In my case it is intel N100. I was really happy with manjaro with KDE but one problem was very annoying. Playing videos on youtube (doesn’t matter which web browser) 4k videos were slow and choppy full HD not so clear, same situation was with big video files in 4k on classic video player (vlc, dragon, kodi, etc.). After many hours spent on looking for the solution, trying many other distribution I have found that videos works good on Debian Trixie. So that it is so weak processor for playing videos in 4k isn’t true now. After all I have found very useful information on this page:

https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Hardware/QuickSync

Where is mentioned that for my processor (tiger lake +) is needed OneVPL library.
In Manjaro repository I found this package related to this library.
vpl-gpu-rt

After installation with dependencies everything immediately works perfectly.
I hope that this thread helps to somebody with similar problem. I posted this like a big thank for Manjaro community for the really nice distribution. Because I really didn’t find here the right solution . And solution is so easy.
Sorry for my English I am not native speaker. And maybe sorry for this thread that I am not looking for solution but I offer the solution.

Best regards
Wladus

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