Gstreamer-VAAPI and Totem

[Bastien Nocera]

On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 15:46 +0100, Javier Jardón wrote:
> 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?

Totem master works fine with the Fluendo VA-API plugin, but explodes
when used with the branch of gst-vaapi. I reported it to Gwenole, but
didn't hear back.