Success! Was: Testing the new i915 driver (HD Graphics 4400)

[Juan Ramón Molina Menor]

> I am glad I was able to be of assistance :)
>
> Does Vimb use multimedia/gstreamer1 or multimedia/gstreamer as codec backend?

GStreamer1: vimb-gtk2 depends indeed on webkit-gtk2, which depends on 
gstreamer1-plugins, etc.

> If it uses multimedia/gstreamer, then there's nothing you can do, since multimedia/gstreamer does NOT have VAAPI plugin. multimedia/gstreamer has only VDPAU plugin (for nVidia GPUs), but not VAAPI.
>
> On the other hand, multimedia/gstreamer1 has multimedia/gstreamer1-vaapi plugin, which should enable hardware decoding.
 >
> So, if Vimb uses multimedia/gstreamer1, then just install multimedia/gstreamer1-vaapi package and you should get proper hardware decoding. If this does not help, then the fault is in GStreamer1 filter priorities.

Yes, I have gstreamer1-vaapi installed, but playing quality is lower 
with vimb than with mpv and CPU usage higher. Oh well…

Best regards,
Juan