Re: [Elementary-dev-community] VA-API in Audience/elementary?

2012-11-22 Thread David Nielsen
I believe that GStreamer 1.0 has much better support for GPU acceleration. -- David Nielsen Sent with Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig) On Thursday den 22. November 2012 at 04.09, Cody Garver wrote: GStreamer needs to support hardware-accelerated playback in order for

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] VA-API in Audience/elementary?

2012-11-22 Thread Jaap Broekhuizen
Much better than previous version of GStreamer, or better than mplayer? -- Jaap On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 11:39 AM, David Nielsen gnomeu...@gmail.com wrote: I believe that GStreamer 1.0 has much better support for GPU acceleration. -- David Nielsen Sent with Sparrow

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] VA-API in Audience/elementary?

2012-11-22 Thread Sergey Shnatsel Davidoff
There is hardware acceleration of video playback on several levels. I assume you mean offloading stream decoding to the GPU in this context, because other means of acceleration were implemented quite a while ago. Hardware acceleration of video decoding has been possible in GStreamer 0.10 (e.g. it

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] VA-API in Audience/elementary?

2012-11-22 Thread Cassidy James
Apparently this should be taken care of in GStreamer: http://docs.gstreamer.com/display/GstSDK/Playback+tutorial+8%3A+Hardware-accelerated+video+decoding My question is: is this supported out of the box on our OS? On Nov 22, 2012 12:10 AM, Cody Garver c...@elementaryos.org wrote: GStreamer

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] VA-API in Audience/elementary?

2012-11-22 Thread Sergey Shnatsel Davidoff
Proper VA-API decoding will not be supported in Luna (except via the commerical gstreamer-fluvadec) because we'll stick to GStreamer 0.10; going forward I'd recommend to stick to it for a while and wait till 1.0 stabilizes and gains more plugins. In general I'd prefer to stick to whatever Ubuntu