Best graphics card brand for GStreamer?

Sergei Vorobyov sergei.vorobyov at facilitylabs.com
Wed Oct 22 22:54:30 PDT 2014


The question was not to blame the major Ubuntu LTS distribution's
"misconfiguration" (thousands would have already noticed it)

but to recommend best possible configurations of hardware/driver to be used
with GStreamer.

It a simple question.

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 11:28 PM, Nicolas Dufresne <
nicolas.dufresne at collabora.com> wrote:

>
> Le 2014-10-22 14:03, Sergei Vorobyov a écrit :
>
>>
>> Does anyone have a well-founded opinion/recommendations on the best
>> GStreamer/driver/hardware compatibility? I am about to give up on GStreamer
>> as useless for production purposes, sorry.
>>
> If you are having problem with your display path, it's going to be the
> same with any other software as soon as you actually start using the HW. As
> an example here, WebkitGTK uses SW path (convert to RGB and compose on CPU)
> to render your video. Newest version can compose on GPU, but still convert
> on CPU. Totem uses Clutter, which is GL accelerated. The fact the WebKit
> works but no Totem means that Clutter or GL stack on your distro is broken
> or miss-configured. You'd have to blame the sys-admin, or the distro.
>
> Nicolas
>
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