On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 03:12:41PM -0500, John D. Baker wrote: > Some time back I asked about what provided device-specific "vdpau" > support after seeing a message from 'mplayer' about not finding > "libvdpau_i965.so" when detecting the video capabilities of my > intel-graphics-equipped system. > > I was informed that "vdpau" support was part of Mesa. With the import > of the shiny new Mesa (and accompanying LLVM build overhead), I had been > expecting to see such device-specific goodies become a part of the xorg > sets in -current. It appears this is not the case. > > I tend to worry when I see messages about missing libraries, even if > there is a fallback to do without them. Is there some performance > benefit being missed, or some other capability that can't be leveraged > due to the missing library? Or does it tend to be too small to be worth > the effort of including the device-specific support? > > Thanks.
The only motivation to skip VDPAU is wanting to get Mesa done in a timely manner, since it's an optional feature. Supposedly it's even more efficient video decoding, but I didn't do a comparison (It would be pretty easy to do, since pkgsrc mesa does build VDPAU).