Problem with etnaviv and gstreamer 1.0

[Luís Mendes]

Hi Nicolas,

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Luís Mendes

On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 4:17 PM, Nicolas Dufresne
<nicolas.dufresne at collabora.com> wrote:
> Le mardi 05 décembre 2017 à 16:07 +0000, Luís Mendes a écrit :
>> > > making the CODA VPU unit available to all the applications that are
>> > > already VAAPI and VDPAU aware, like vlc, kodi and others. That way
>
> FFMPEG, Khodi and other applicaitons (Chromium, GStreamer) already
> support this type of decoder. It's a state full decoder, while VAAPI is
> designed for state less decoders. It also make not sense to wrap this
> inside a GPU driver, because it's not a GPU.

If you look into mesa you will find that it implements the VAAPI and
VDPAU APIs and that i965, amdgpu and nouveau drivers implement the
bridge through the VL internal mesa API. In ubuntu the resulting
dynamic libraries from mesa compilation will be packaged into
mesa-va-drivers and mesa-vdpau-drivers. So, yes the VPU
implementations are side-by-side with the GPU support.

>
> Nicolas