VDPAUINFO(1)

📦 version 1.5, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💅 VDPAUINFO 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the vdpauinfo manual page (that's section 1 of the User Commands manual, iykyk) — it's short, it's sweet, and it's literally just here to tell you what your GPU can do 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

vdpauinfo — query VDPAU capabilities

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

vdpauinfo [--screen screen_number] [--display displayname]

like. that's it. that's the whole vibe. run it, optionally point it at a screen or a display, and let it spill the tea about your VDPAU setup 💖

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

vdpauinfo is a command-line tool that can query the capabilities of the system's VDPAU implementation.

no cap — that's genuinely the entire job. it's the "so what can you actually do, bestie?" tool for your VDPAU stack. the way it just asks and reports back? iconic. 👑

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • --screen screen_number — which X screen you wanna query. like picking which sibling you're talking to. 🖥️
  • --display displayname — which server to query. point it at the display you want the deets from. ✨
  • --help — prints the help text. the "wait what were the flags again" button. classic. 🙈

💜 ENVIRONMENT 💜

these environment variables can influence the behavior of vdpauinfo. yes bestie, the environment is part of the plot 🌈

  • VDPAU_DRIVER — setting this variable will cause libvdpau to select a non-default backend. for example, to run on an Intel IGPU via VA, set it to va_gl. slay 💅

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

the full documentation for vdpauinfo and vdpau can be found at:

<https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/VDPAU/>

go read it, it's giving lore 📖✨

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was written by Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com> for the Debian project. thank you for your service king 🫡💖

and that's the whole page, bestie!! no notes, 10/10, ate and left no crumbs 🍓

this was vdpauinfo version 1.0, dated August 2017 — yeah it's a little vintage but it's still serving ✨ mwah 💋

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