Finally, Intel G45 VA-API Support Is Available

[Olangu]

<quote>however, it's interesting that according to Intel there are no such problems and it should work:

http://intellinuxgraphics.org/h264.html</quote>

I did'nt even know that they had updated that page.
That's disturbing, I'm taking it to the mailing list...

[elmariachi]

Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but vaapi seems to be working here with mplayer (-vo vaapi)... silky smooth play

[Kano]

you need

-va vaapi

too.

[darkbasic]

Some benchmarks: http://phoronix.com/forums/showthrea...%29-benchmarks

[ejs1920]

I think it's actually usable now. http://lists.freedesktop.org/archive...er/000632.html

I was only testing fairly low bitrate 720p h264 in VLC, it lowered cpu usage from (very approximately) 45% to 25%, and there were no apparent problems.

[cojoda]

Seems to work for me as well. Using a 1080p bluray rip (10GB) CPU usage on mplayer went from around 30% to 3%. But it doesn't work with multithreading yet. Setting threads to anything other than 1 and the CPU goes back up to 30%. To get high bit-rate files, like the one above, to work, I didn't setting SwapbuffersWait to off in my xorg.conf, since I don't have one. Instead, I just gave mplayer an unusually high cache (27MB), and that seemed to fix frame drop issues.

[darkbasic]

New benchmarks: http://phoronix.com/forums/showthrea...%29-benchmarks

[elmariachi]

So.. nothing new in this front? I still can't use more than 1 thread in mplayer.

[darkbasic]

It seems vaapi for g45 is dead.