How to Install and Uninstall gstreamer1.0-vaapi Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: May 18,2024

1. Install "gstreamer1.0-vaapi" package

This guide let you learn how to install gstreamer1.0-vaapi on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install gstreamer1.0-vaapi

2. Uninstall "gstreamer1.0-vaapi" package

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall gstreamer1.0-vaapi on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):

$ sudo apt remove gstreamer1.0-vaapi $ sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

3. Information about the gstreamer1.0-vaapi package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: gstreamer1.0-vaapi
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.18.0-1
Multi-Arch: same
Priority: optional
Section: universe/libs
Source: gstreamer-vaapi
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Maintainers of GStreamer packages
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 883
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.29), libdrm2 (>= 2.3.1), libegl1, libgl1, libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.44), libgstreamer-gl1.0-0 (>= 1.18.0), libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0 (>= 1.18.0), libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0 (>= 1.18.0), libgstreamer1.0-0 (>= 1.18.0), libudev1 (>= 183), libva-drm2 (>= 1.1.0), libva-wayland2 (>= 1.3.0), libva-x11-2 (>= 1.0.9), libva2 (>= 2.2.0), libwayland-client0 (>= 1.11.0), libx11-6, libxrandr2
Suggests: gstreamer1.0-vaapi-doc
Filename: pool/universe/g/gstreamer-vaapi/gstreamer1.0-vaapi_1.18.0-1_amd64.deb
Size: 303932
MD5sum: 3d91b26928a80674848416a19a0c07c5
SHA1: 19df6ea6d1abdb3ffedb8d549c70dae6d5f5085e
SHA256: f8e0e985745f9264fefc19b397d43b39261a1140e1e62ded043aa8b974799a3f
SHA512: b4d78f1fd14ed43b0e19c74d9e99c2e181028b03ad22352e338cb87449370d45253de5f1d12c0742a560cc7eeebf78fc2b78ed1820fdbb0e0a66024aab5ce1f5
Homepage: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org
Description-en: VA-API plugins for GStreamer
Gstreamer-vaapi is a collection of GStreamer plugins and helper libraries that
allow hardware accelerated video decoding, encoding and processing through
VA-API.
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This package contains GStreamer plugins for VA-API support:
- `vaapiconvert': converts from YUV pixels to VA surfaces
- `vaapisink': a VA-API based video sink
Description-md5: 8adddb56a86e9aa5c8e45098c3045f7a