VDPAU API H.265 / HEVC Decoding Lands In Mainline

[DanL]

You know why nvidia pulls this stuff? Because the "who gives a shit" people like you.

It doesn't matter what I think. You vote with your wallet, and I haven't bought an Nvidia product since an nForce4-based motherboard in 2005.

[Vincenzov]

Good evening, already exits a decoder for windows, using OpenCL Strongene PC, it works well and is used for decoding of H265. So the problem would take him in linux.
works with radeon 5000 and higher

[efikkan]

@ParticleBoard
I would not consider the above 3.5 GB VRAM bug of the GTX 970 so critical for current games as you already could see lots of benchmarks, those would be always the same - if you know the internal specs or not.

True, once Nvidia is done fine tuning the memory allocation this memory restriction will be completely transparent to the user, since the GPU memory does store a lot of relatively static data during rendering. If they've done the fine tuning to begin with, no one would ever have noticed except for CUDA and OpenCL workloads.

[Kano]

Not Nvidia releated, but Intel Skylake:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/vaapi/intel-driver/log/?h=staging

Look for "skl_hw_codec_info" in:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/vaapi/intel-driver/plain/src/i965_device_info.c?h=staging

Also interesting - look for "hook_list[]" to see with Pentium/Celeron uses a similar video engine.