Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 6/7] hwcontext_vaapi: Try to create devices via DRM before X11

2019-05-06 Thread myp...@gmail.com
On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 10:56 PM Mark Thompson wrote: > > Opening the device via X11 (DRI2/DRI3) rather than opening a DRM render > node directly is only useful if you intend to use the legacy X11 interop > functions. That's never true for the ffmpeg utility, and a library user > who does want thi

[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 6/7] hwcontext_vaapi: Try to create devices via DRM before X11

2019-05-06 Thread Mark Thompson
Opening the device via X11 (DRI2/DRI3) rather than opening a DRM render node directly is only useful if you intend to use the legacy X11 interop functions. That's never true for the ffmpeg utility, and a library user who does want this will likely provide their own display instance rather than mak