Mplayer, FFmpeg Gain VA-API Support

[StefanHamminga]

So does that mean we get a heap of possible (android) Linux devices supporting accelerated playback? Eg. is this an Intel development or is Intel just making use of a Imagination Tech. driver for the PowerVR SGX?

[unix_epoch]

Poulsbo is also commonly used on embedded devices that have the Atom, such as wall-mounted touch screen interfaces for proprietary A/V systems, and maybe in-car entertainment systems and navigation systems.

[jeffro-tull]

From the article:
"Some of the caveats though in this initial support include non-accelerated decoding is not supported with the VA-API renderer,"

uhhh.... what? There has got to be a better way to word that.

[bulletxt]

it's funny how Michael was able to fit an AMD sentence in the first 3 sentences of this article, an article that should say "nvidia go go go!" and "mplayer/vlc/xine/etc are really fast!". and the sentance is:

"AMD has been working hard on XvBA (X-Video Bitstream Acceleration), but that has yet to be officially introduced."

Now, if AMD has been working hard (really? wow!), then what the hell did NVIDIA do? work like slaves?

oh phoronix....just put an AMD flag on the website and I will finally shut up.

[kdubya]

There is no way vdpau will get into upstream ffmpeg as long as it is only available in the beta driver. VA-API is in the stable Paulsbo driver, so it might actually make it into ffmpeg first.

[npcomplete]

.. upon seeing the title I thought I would be in for a surprise.. but it turns out ffmpeg (as in upstream ffmpeg) did not actually get vdpau support yet. Actually its acceptance would be a good indicator that vdpau functionality has improved

[kdubya]

This is awesome. My Inspiron Mini 12 gets here today. I was debating on waiting for something similar with nvidia graphics for vdpau... glad I didn't wait.

[bugmenot]

I mean, I can watch how much my CPU is used. Why doesn't Gnome and KDE have that for GPU's as well?

I would *really* like that, too! I think it has to implented in the graphical driver first, then there must be patches for reading this out. But yes, would be really great if that was possible!

[Louise]

With the GPU being used more and more, I was wondering how it can be, that Gnome/KDE doesn't have a GPU monitor?

I mean, I can watch how much my CPU is used. Why doesn't Gnome and KDE have that for GPU's as well?

[bugmenot]

Great, great, great! Now we have a real free 'up2date' standard implemented. Competition is always good. I am interested in how effective VA API will be compared to nvidia.

Now only patches for vlc and totem and so on are missing, and of course drivers that support VA API. Hopefully intels open source graphics driver will support that and also the open AMD drivers.
Would it be possible simple to write a Gallium3d backend and so every Gallium3d driver would support that?

And please, intel, don't start closed source crap.