Gstreamer-VAAPI and Totem

[Bastien Nocera]

On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 21:33 +0200, Holger Kaelberer wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On 06/05/2012 07:55 PM, Alessandro Crismani wrote:
> >  > 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.
> 
> Hm, works for me with:
> gconftool-2  -s /system/gstreamer/0.10/default/videosink vaapisink --type=string

That will only work with Totem 3.0 and earlier though.

> I aggree though, that the resulting pipeline looks strange: there are some software-only elements 
> (like ffmpegcolorspace) added to the pipe but obviously not used.

That need has been removed in the devel version leading to Totem 3.6.

> > As a second thought, do you happen to know if there are gstreamer based video players that are
> > capable of using VAAPI as of today?
> 
> You can also try snappy (git://git.gnome.org/snappy), works nicely together with clustter-gst (and 
> gst-vaapi) out-of-the-box ;-)

I see no reason that Totem wouldn't work in the same way (apart from the
use of ffmpegcolorspace in 3.2 and 3.4).