Since messing with mpv HW decoding using the ffmpeg-rpi broke vlc that used the ffmpeg4.4 package I recompiled upstream’s vlc-rpi with ffmpeg-rpi libs. It seems to work ok with HW decoding. I had to delete ~/.config/vlc to get rid of my config’s I had and enable disable_fw_kms_setup=1 in /boot/config.txt.
Here is a link to the vlc-rpi/ffmpeg-rpi. I included ffmpeg-rpi if you do not already have it installed. The vlc-rpi is split into 2 packages which one of them has debug.
This will allow you to have ffmpeg v6 (which a lot of packages depend on) and ffmpeg-rpi v4.4 installed at the same time. The vlc package in the repo depends on ffmpeg4.4 which both will have to be uninstalled if they are installed.
From what I remember this is what I remember I had to do to get HW decoding going:
Enable disable_fw_kms_setup=1 in /boot/config.txt and reboot.
I had to remove the ~/.config/vlc directory. Something in the existing config’s was preventing HW decoding from working. I suspect the issue had to do with the vlc-rpi using the divX player for HW decoding and new config’s had to be generated.
