Chinese GPU Vendor Moore Threads Contributing To VA-API, FFmpeg

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Chinese GPU Vendor Moore Threads Contributing To VA-API, FFmpeg

Moore Threads was established in 2020 to create domestic GPU solutions in China with their first products having been announced last year. Most of the talk around Moore Threads "MThreads" GPUs have been for Windows but they are working on Linux support to at least some extent...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Moore-Threads-VA-API-FFmpeg

[tildearrow]

Typo:

but sadly so far we haven to seen any open-source

[Michael]

Typo:

Thanks, fixed.

[jorgepl]

What's AVS?

[Anux]

It would make no sense to develop an VA-API driver but have no DRM/Vulkan/oGL so my bet is, it will come later.

[gnarlin]

Typo, but I don't know if that was in the message from the original developer or from Michael.

produncts

[xpander]

There are some shady drivers for MTT S2000

https://www.unixcloud.ltd/drivers/

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Ou1FlObfrw1O0FgnvTx4-cb6czatmZQY

[edxposed]

It would make no sense to develop an VA-API driver but have no DRM/Vulkan/oGL so my bet is, it will come later.

You don't actually need the graphics API if you're just using it as a media acceleration card, the VA-API also includes video processing.
Furthermore, Moore Threads, as a latecomer, makes perfect sense to use VA-API as the designated video acceleration API for the product, since all public infrastructures, such as Chromium, FFmpeg, only support VA-API. if you try to force your own proprietary API, you will only end up like NVIDIA, not even Chromium hardware acceleration is not even possible. Graphics APIs are a different matter, and can be used by any application, regardless of whether the driver is open source or not, as long as it implements Vulkan/OpenGL.

[monkeynut]

Contribution is always good, hopefully they start bringing in Mesa code at some point.

[Anux]

You don't actually need the graphics API if you're just using it as a media acceleration card, the VA-API also includes video processing.
Furthermore, Moore Threads, as a latecomer, makes perfect sense to use VA-API as the designated video acceleration API for the product, since all public infrastructures, such as Chromium, FFmpeg, only support VA-API. if you try to force your own proprietary API, you will only end up like NVIDIA, not even Chromium hardware acceleration is not even possible. Graphics APIs are a different matter, and can be used by any application, regardless of whether the driver is open source or not, as long as it implements Vulkan/OpenGL.

That doesn't make sense either. Using a power hungry, expensive card for video only would mean you need a second card anyway and then there is already a VA-API on the second GPU. And unless this card has the most advanced video enc/dec hardware out there, it's basically not useful for a streaming server.