GStreamer OpenMAX IL Wrapper 1.0 Released

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GStreamer OpenMAX IL Wrapper 1.0 Released

Collabora has announced the release of their GStreamer OpenMax IL wrapper plug-in for the GStreamer 1.x multimedia framework...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTMzNDE

[przemoli]

Always wondered why Nvidia/AMD/Intel wont use OpenMAX instead of their own API's..

[miskol]

nvidia provide openmax api on tegra

search for openmax

https://developer.nvidia.com/content/new-tegra-android-native-samples-pack-available-real-solutions-common-android-game

https://gitorious.org/nvtegra-gst

[plonoma]

Want to seen OpenMAX being a first class feature in GStreamer.
These open standards from Khronos go a long way in making software api's open and are good for compatibility and compatibility.

[daniels]

The answer to both of those questions is that OpenMAX isn't meaningfully cross-platform. You can't have a generic implementation which works everywhere; you need to be aware of every platform's special (with a capital S) API and brokenness. It would be great if there was a cross-platform low-level media API, but OpenMAX just isn't it, and never will be. Luckily there's a framework that does this for you though, so you can just target GStreamer.

[portets43]

Yes!

Does this mean the Raspberry Pi can finally hardware acellerate GStreamer?