Status of GPU accelerated decoding

[Tim Müller]

On Sat, 2013-11-02 at 13:40 +0000, Tony Houghton wrote:

Hi Tony,

> I want to write a video player with gstreamer, and one of the
> requirements is being able to play HD material with a low-power CPU. I
> was disappointed to find that neither vdpau nor vaapi have been fully
> ported to 1.2 yet, and I don't want to send myself down a dead-end by
> using 0.10.
> 
> Are either of these plugins likely to become usable again soon? I
> realise these technologies probably don't fit in well with gstreamer and
> the developers face a lot of difficulties, but I think accelerated
> decoding is almost essential for a well-capable video player.

gst-vaapi master branch includes support for 1.2 now if I'm not
mistaken.

Cheers
 -Tim