elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver
A VA-API implemention using NVIDIA's NVDEC observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
82/100
- Activity 93
- Release rhythm 59
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 144.5
- age_days: 1752
- days_rel: 116
- days_push: 47
- n_releases_24m: 5
Adoption not part of the score
1687 stars · 90 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
A VA-API driver implementation that uses NVIDIA's NVDEC hardware decoder as its backend, written in C. It is primarily designed to enable hardware-accelerated video decoding in Firefox on Linux systems with NVIDIA GPUs.
Use cases
- enable hardware video decoding in Firefox on NVIDIA GPUs
- decode AV1, H.264, HEVC, VP8, VP9, MPEG-2 and VC-1 via NVDEC
- use vainfo to inspect NVIDIA codec support
- accelerate video playback in MPV via VA-API
- avoid CPU-based video decoding on Linux with NVIDIA drivers
When to choose
- you use Firefox on Linux with an NVIDIA GPU and want GPU video decoding
- you want VA-API applications to leverage NVDEC for hardware decode
- you need YUV444 HEVC decoding on Turing or newer cards
When to avoid
- you need hardware video encoding, which is not supported
- you need MPEG-4 or JPEG decoding
- you use applications other than Firefox/MPV where the driver may not work correctly
Facets
library · maturity active
video-processing graphics media graphics operating-systems vaapi nvdec nvidia hardware-video-decoding firefox linux
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver · fetched 2026-08-28 · 7f56567141db
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver | main | 82 |
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