Multimedia & Codecs

AcreetionOS ships the codec stack most distros make you hunt for.

Already working

  • MP4/H.264/H.265, WebM/VP9, AV1 (decode), AAC/MP3/Opus/Vorbis, FLAC — via ffmpeg-backed players.

  • Browser media (YouTube etc.) uses built-in open codecs + VA-API acceleration.

Recommended players

sudo pacman -S mpv          # minimal, plays literally everything
sudo pacman -S vlc          # GUI classic

Hardware acceleration

Offloads video decode to the GPU — cooler and battery-friendlier:

  • AMD/older Intel: libva-mesa-driver · Intel Broadwell+: intel-media-driver — details in AMD & Intel Graphics.

  • Verify: vainfo lists H264/HEVC entries.

  • mpv honors it automatically (mpv --hwdec=auto-safe file.mkv).

DVDs

Commercial DVDs use CSS scrambling:

yay -S libdvdcss            # AUR; legality varies by country — check locally

Blu-rays work best in VLC with AUR libaacs + configured KEYDB for commercial discs.

Creating content

  • Screen recording: OBS Studio (flatpak install flathub com.obsproject.Studio or repos).

  • Editing: Kdenlive (pacman/Flatpak) or DaVinci Resolve via AUR.

  • Conversion CLI: ffmpeg -i in.mov -c:v libx264 -crf 20 out.mp4.

Audio pipeline

PipeWire handles routing; pro-audio latency knobs live in Performance Tuning, device switching in Audio.