Gstreamer can it use Radon Processor/ ATI etc

[Sean McNamara]

Hi,

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Tony Houghton <h at realh.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.

To my knowledge, I don't think current Radeons (HD2000 and later) work
with VA-API at all, either on the Catalyst drivers or the open source
graphics stack. I may be wrong though. I've heard of some development
efforts along these lines, for sure, in both the free software and the
proprietary stack, but I really don't think this is ready for general
consumption, yet.

Sean

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