How to enable VDPAU acceleration for accelerated Flash video.

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nt on /r/pcmasterrace) (self.Ubuntu)
Here are instructions for enabling hardware video acceleration for Flash on the
most popular video drivers, compiled into one post.
Basically, if your Youtube uses a lot of your CPU or is very slow when playing H
D video, this will fix it.
Nvidia using the official Nvidia binary driver
sudo apt-get install libvdpau1 vdpau-va-driver
sudo mkdir /etc/adobe
sudo echo -e "EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode = 1\nOverrideGPUValidation = 1" | sudo te
e /etc/adobe/mms.cfg
Intel using the normal Intel drivers
sudo apt-get install i965-va-driver
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libvdpau-va-gl1
sudo sh -c "echo 'export VDPAU_DRIVER=va_gl' >> /etc/profile"
sudo mkdir /etc/adobe
sudo echo -e "EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode = 1\nOverrideGPUValidation = 1" | sudo te
e /etc/adobe/mms.cfg
AMD with fglrx driver
sudo apt-get install xvba-va-driver
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libvdpau-va-gl1
sudo sh -c "echo 'export VDPAU_DRIVER=va_gl' >> /etc/profile"
sudo mkdir /etc/adobe
sudo echo -e "EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode = 1\nOverrideGPUValidation = 1" | sudo te
e /etc/adobe/mms.cfg
AMD with open-source radeon (built-in) driver
You must have Ubuntu 13.10 or later.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers (if on Ubuntu 13.10)
sudo apt-get install libg3dvl-mesa (if on Ubuntu 13.10)
sudo apt-get install mesa-vdpau-drivers (if on Ubuntu 14.04)
sudo mkdir /etc/adobe
sudo echo -e "EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode = 1\nOverrideGPUValidation = 1" | sudo te
e /etc/adobe/mms.cfg
After all of the above
After completing the section relevant to your graphics card, make sure Chrome is
using the system flash plugin, right click on a Youtube video, click Settings,
and check the Hardware Acceleration box.
Finally, reboot your computer.
Check if everything worked by right-clicking a Youtube video, and clicking Stats
For Nerds. It should say Accelerated Decoding and Accelerated Rendering.
Feel free to correct me if I messed up anywhere here.
EDIT 4/17/14 Fixed the non-working system-wide command by including a command th
at simply appends "export VDPAU_DRIVER=va_gl" to /etc/profile. Also added proper
instructions for radeon driver.