![]() ![]() Just don't use GNOME on Wayland because it's not yet fully working. This means either Unity 7 or GNOME is OK. Preferably you're using X and not Wayland. You may find that 17.10 or 17.04 is required in order to get a current acceleration driver that supports your hardware. If you need web browser video, or MKV files for example, then you should look at the Future Roadmap instead. What "works" well is limited to a couple of particular video players. Unfortunately we cannot recommend gnome-mpv right now. However totem has a few performance problems that are still yet to be fixed so for smoother playback and lower power usage we recommend mpv instead, which in Ubuntu 17.10 and later is configured to provide working hardware acceleration out-of-the-box: $ sudo apt install mpv ![]() You can verify this by installing the vainfo tool: $ sudo apt install vainfo You now have working hardware accelerated video playback in totem ("Videos" app) only.
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