On 02/12/2014 08:34 PM, Vladimír Čunát wrote:
> On 02/11/2014 11:22 PM, Pascal Wittmann wrote:
>> "The current video decode/encode interface is window system independent,
>> so that potentially it can be used with graphics sub-systems other
>> than X."
> 
> I know of no such plans yet. OpenGL drivers are found via the
> /run/opengl* symlink (vdpau is there, too). VA API is currently found by
> setting an environment variable, so that is done when starting your
> display manager (so it gets into env of every X app).
> 
> If it makes sense to use it without any graphics subsystem, then we can
> change it, but I'm not sure if VA API is useful without graphics mode...

Ok, then the name seems to be fine. Thanks for the explanation.

Pascal

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