[Libva] Do all back-end drivers support H.264 hardware encoding?

[Karthik Kailash]

Hi Gwenole,

Thanks for the information.  It seems based on some digging that the Intel
platform is windows only?  (Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quick_Sync_Video,
http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/showthread.php?t=77855 ).

Is this the case or does VA-API allow me to use the hardware acceleration in
Linux?

Best,
Karthik

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Gwenole Beauchesne <gb.devel at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 2011/10/5 Karthik Kailash <karthik at freestreammedia.com>:
>
> > I would like to purchase a graphics card and use it with LibAV / VAAPI
> for
> > hardware accelerated encoding and decoding of h.264 video.  Do all the
> > hardware platforms and associated drivers listed
> > on http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/vaapi have support for
> hardware
> > acceleration of h264 encoding?
>
> Only Intel platforms support HW accelerated H.264 encoding with VA-API
> at this time. In particular, this means Sandy Bridge platforms.
> Besides, there is no support yet in FFmpeg for HW accelerated H.264
> encoding.
>
> Regards,
> Gwenole.
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