Gstreamer-VAAPI and Totem

[Javier Jardón]

On 5 June 2012 17:18, Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne at collabora.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Le mardi 05 juin 2012 à 15:29 +0200, Alessandro Crismani a écrit :
> > However, when I open it with Totem, the CPU rockets to sky levels :(
> > As far as I understood, Totem should pick the gstreamer playbin2 and
> > automagically use VAAPI, however it seems to fail on me. I have tried
> > getting debug using:
> > -> totem --gst-debug-help
> > but I do not see anything VAAPI related (only VDPAU there). How can I
> > see if Totem is using any VAAPI based decoding?
>
> The problem is that Totem is using the videobalance element, which is a
> pure software element. Using software element prevent using hardware
> acceleration like libva or VDPAU.

Seems that current totem master doesnt use videobalance element
anymore. Take a look here [1]
Could you test latest totem and see if the issue is already fixed?

Cheers

[1] http://git.gnome.org/browse/totem/commit/?id=bc6f874373f64a0036711bbfe845d76264ec097a
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