Hardware acceleration

Julien Moutte julien at fluendo.com
Thu May 23 10:03:10 PDT 2013


Yep, that's exactly it. From what I know hardware acceleration on versions
< 4.1 was only available through StageFright (which in turn uses OpenMax
underneath), which is not very "interesting" for GStreamer as handing off
everything to stagefright make use "useless".

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On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Achraf Ben Ali <gouailia at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have Samsung Galaxy Tab (Android 3.2) Gstreamer works fine for SD videos
> but lags with HD ones (Not smooth) may be because of Hardware accélération
> which is available only since 4.1 (for GStreamer sdk) because MXPlayer do
> the stuff via HW acceleration.
>
>
>
> 2013/5/23 Julien Moutte <julien at fluendo.com>
>
>> Well you can try the element on the target device, as the list of
>> supported codecs can vary on a per device basis.
>>
>> Generally you can count on H264 and VP8 to be available as well as AAC
>> and MP3.
>>
>> http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> *Julien MOUTTE*
>> C.T.O.
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>> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Beka Iglesias <rbciglesias at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> ok, thanks, and the hardware acceleration is for all codecs, free codecs
>>> included??I mean webm, ogg,theora...
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance :-)
>>>
>>> Beka
>>>
>>>
>>> 2013/5/22 Julien Moutte <julien at fluendo.com>
>>>
>>>> Hi Beka,
>>>>
>>>> Yes, Since Android 4.1 there's a Media Codec API that the GStreamer SDK
>>>> is using to provided hardware accelerated video decoding.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>>
>>>> *Julien MOUTTE*
>>>> C.T.O.
>>>>
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>>>> On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Beka Iglesias <rbciglesias at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi again!
>>>>>
>>>>> One question: is it working right hardware acceleration in gstreamer
>>>>> SDK for android since API 16 and Android 4.1???
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks in advance again
>>>>>
>>>>> Beka Iglesias
>>>>>
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