- tl;dr, playback still seams broken, $ vdpauinfo fails to find a lib - it is weird how vaapi relies on vdpau backend, hmm - at least with sw rendering compton doesn't tear $ pacman -S libva-vdpau-driver libvdpau-va-gl vdpauinfo $ ln -s /usr/lib/vdpau/libvdpau_va_gl.so.1 /usr/lib/vdpau/libvdpau_i965.so $ LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=vdpau mpv --hwdec=vaapi --vo=vaapi - 2017 update, hw accel works [kyle@ion ~]$ cat .config/mpv/mpv.conf hwdec=vaapi vo=vaapi