Gstreamer can it use Radon Processor/ ATI etc

[Tony Houghton]

On Fri, 11 May 2012 19:19:42 -0400
Sean McNamara <smcnam at gmail.com> wrote:

> Right now the only hardware support I'm aware of that exists today for
> Radeon are the following two:
> 
> 1. Fluendo (a company) sells a codec for decoding video using the XvBA
> API, which is a proprietary API for the ATI Catalyst Linux driver
> (does not work with the open source drivers or on any other platform
> than Linux).
> 2. Gstreamer itself supports glvideosink, which will render decoded
> raw video to an OpenGL device, to offload the task of drawing the
> image to the 3d hardware.

There's also a free vaapi gstreamer plugin, but I don't know how well it
compares to the Fluendo one.