Hello! Thanks!

As I see, libva can use X11 or direct DRM, and it can`t use DRM when system has 
running X11. Am I right?
I will have research (google) about relations between dri and drm.

27.03.2014, 20:01, "Matt Pekar" <[email protected]>:
> I'm not sure of the exact relationship between dri and drm (maybe dri became 
> drm?), but you can use it/them to run libva without X.
>
> In our code, we first attempt to initialize libva with X11 (for desktop 
> development), then a secondary attempt is made to initialize through DRM 
> (which is how our program runs in production).
>
> The tricky part is that DRM requires some elevated permissions, and we made 
> some changes to the va_drm_auth.c file to accommodate that better for us.
>
> The code is something along these lines:
>
> VADisplay va_display;
>
> printf("attempting to connect through X");
> Display* x11_display = XOpenDisplay(":0.0");
> if(x11_display != NULL)
> {
> printf("connected through X");
> va_display = vaGetDisplay(x11_display);
> return;
> }
>
> printf("attempting to connect through drm");
> int drm_fd = open("/dev/dri/card0", O_RDWR);
> if (element->drm_fd > 0)
> {
> printf("connected through drm on /dev/dri/card0");
>
> va_display = vaGetDisplayDRM(element->drm_fd);
>
> return;
> }
>
> //error
>
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 8:32 AM, Nik Orlov <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> As I have read here (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/vaapi/)
>>
>> The current video decode/encode interface is window system independent, so 
>> that potentially it can be used with graphics sub-systems other than X. In a 
>> nutshell it is basically a scheme to pass various types of data buffers from 
>> the application to the GPU for decoding or encoding. Feedback on the API is 
>> greatly welcomed, as this is intended to be a community collaborative effort.
>>
>> So, there is some way to setup debian or ubuntu without Xorg to use libva.
>> Maybe someone show me right way? At the moment I don`t know infrustructure 
>> of libva.
>>
>> There is schem from wiki 
>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Acceleration_API) 
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vaapi_illustration.svg
>> I don`t understand VA Hardware Driver needs to use all DRILib, DRMLib and 
>> direct access to hardware OR it can use one of them?
>>
>> According to sources of h264encoding test from libva-1.1.1 it uses some 
>> functions with display
>>
>>     va_dpy = va_open_display();
>>     va_status = vaInitialize(va_dpy, &major_ver, &minor_ver);
>>     CHECK_VASTATUS(va_status, "vaInitialize");
>>
>> It seems I still Xorg to use this features, or there is another way?
>>
>> --
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