How to Install and Uninstall gstreamer1.0-vaapi Package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Last updated: July 03,2024

1. Install "gstreamer1.0-vaapi" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install gstreamer1.0-vaapi on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "gstreamer1.0-vaapi" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall gstreamer1.0-vaapi on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):


    
        
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3. Information about the gstreamer1.0-vaapi package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Package: gstreamer1.0-vaapi
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.18.4-1
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: 839
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 (>= 1.18.3), 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_1.18.4-1_amd64.deb
Size: 297872
MD5sum: a096423ba37f160902b40d5415039374
SHA1: 0e9a44107995587c9299c2f449bd3dd8eddd6f37
SHA256: e997c725dc9158c8c418ac3bb28fb8ebea5aefbcfd131fae695cdf0151f70460
SHA512: 6a1b41b6ed313f418cf03d1c93c9a7c15547943530f11ffcc00ccd24e493701911b3f69df61d184d10c412c402ce909d6ec1ed3796cf5daf10bdc6bb9787d541
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