FFmpeg Lands VA-API H.264 / H.265 / MJPEG Encoder Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: FFmpeg Lands VA-API H.264 / H.265 / MJPEG Encoder Support

The developers working on the FFmpeg multimedia library have finally implemented support for VA-API accelerated video encoding...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FFmpeg-VA-API-Encoder

[Pontostroy]

very nice, i did some gstreamer vaapi vs ffmpeg vaapi comparison

http://www.gearsongallium.com/?p=3135

[Brainiarc7]

Hello guys,

You can now use VAAPI to accelerate H.264 encoding (as tested) in ffmpeg via the h264_vaapi encoder, and I've written instructions to get it to work here: https://gist.github.com/Brainiarc7/9...b2931bed379219