Android 6.0 gstreamer: no hardware acceleration

[Gregoire Gentil]

It seems that gstreamer 1.6.1 fixes the problem but then as I was 
mentioning on my other thread, performance becomes catastrophic on 
Android 5.1.1 (it does hardware decode there),

Grégoire


On 11/25/2015 11:54 AM, Gregoire Gentil wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On a Nexus5X with Android 6.0 Marshmallow, using a playbin pipeline,
> h264 is not decoded in hardware but with libav avdec_264. The same code
> on Nexus 7 2013 5.x uses amcvideodec-omxqcomvideodecoderavc (cool name!).
>
> This thread doesn't give an answer:
> http://gstreamer-devel.966125.n4.nabble.com/GStreamer-on-Android-6-0-anyone-td4674311.html
>
>
> Is there a fix somewhere? Thanks in advance,
>
> Grégoire
>
> P.S.: Is there a way to know which build I have. I do remember that I
> found a nightly build more recent than the official release 1.0.