Hi, 2011/10/10 Erik Slagter <[email protected]>:
>> MPlayer is already using FFmpeg. Or I don't understand what you mean. > > What I mean is that ffmpeg (or actually: the libavcodec lib) would feature > e.g. an h264_vaapi codec that would decode (encode?!) any stream like the > interal decoder (vs. libx264) would do, a drop-in replacement. I guess that > way no player program that uses ffmpeg (including the ffmpeg cli tool) would > be able to use vaapi without patching. > > But I guess there is a good reason not to do it that way ;-) This is already the case and the way all FFmpeg-based media players are using it (VLC, XBMC, Gnash, et al.). Though, you have to do some work on the media player side to create a VA display. There was also work-in-progress to move more things to the FFmpeg codecs. You can see the hwaccel v2 patches on the relevant lists. Regards, Gwenole. _______________________________________________ Libva mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libva
