Hi Gwenole,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for the information. It seems based on some digging that the Intel platform is windows only? (Sources: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quick_Sync_Video">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quick_Sync_Video</a>, <a href="http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/showthread.php?t=77855">http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/showthread.php?t=77855</a> ).</div> <div><br></div><div>Is this the case or does VA-API allow me to use the hardware acceleration in Linux?</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Karthik</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Gwenole Beauchesne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gb.devel@gmail.com" target="_blank">gb.devel@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br> <br> 2011/10/5 Karthik Kailash <<a href="mailto:karthik@freestreammedia.com" target="_blank">karthik@freestreammedia.com</a>>:<br> <div><div></div><div><br> > I would like to purchase a graphics card and use it with LibAV / VAAPI for<br> > hardware accelerated encoding and decoding of h.264 video. Do all the<br> > hardware platforms and associated drivers listed<br> > on <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/vaapi" target="_blank">http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/vaapi</a> have support for hardware<br> > acceleration of h264 encoding?<br> <br> </div></div>Only Intel platforms support HW accelerated H.264 encoding with VA-API<br> at this time. In particular, this means Sandy Bridge platforms.<br> Besides, there is no support yet in FFmpeg for HW accelerated H.264<br> encoding.<br> <br> Regards,<br> Gwenole.<br> _______________________________________________<br> Libva mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Libva@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank">Libva@lists.freedesktop.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libva" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libva</a><br> </blockquote></div><br></div>