VA-API VP9 Encode For GStreamer??

[Sreerenj Balachandran]

Please check the link: https://github.com/intel/media-driver/issues/771


If you would like to have vp9 encoder for KBL & CFL (Intel gen9.5 graphics
platforms) in iHD media driver, this could be the only option:
https://github.com/intel/media-driver/pull/717

It is still in my dev branch, currently not planned to integrate it in iHD
master.


On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 4:41 PM Patrick Cusack <patrickcusack at mac.com>
wrote:

> After making the changes, I was able to run the following command:
>
> gst-launch-1.0 -ev videotestsrc num-buffers=60 ! timeoverlay ! vaapivp9enc
> ! matroskamux ! filesink location=test.mkv
>
> This worked successfully. The file played back fine on VLC.
>
> Patrick
>
> On May 20, 2020, at 2:24 PM, Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas at ndufresne.ca>
> wrote:
>
> Le mercredi 20 mai 2020 à 13:12 -0700, Patrick Cusack a écrit :
>
> [root at localhost gstreamer-1.0]# LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME="i965" vainfo
> error: can't connect to X server!
> libva info: VA-API version 1.7.0
> libva info: User environment variable requested driver 'i965'
> libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/*i965_drv_video.so*
> libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_6
> libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
> vainfo: VA-API version: 1.7 (libva 2.7.0.pre1)
> vainfo: Driver version: Intel i965 driver for Intel(R) Coffee Lake - 2.4.0
> vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
>
> [snip]
>
>       VAProfileVP9Profile0            : VAEntrypointEncSlice
>
>
> In 1.16, iHD driver is masked as it includes some breaking change in the
> way the API is implemented. This will be unmasked in 1.18 (upcoming
> released). Though as you can see, The VP9 encoder is gone in the iHD driver
> (the new driver). It is not clear why the default driver was flipped
> without checking if that would break existing userspace. So basically, if
> you want to see the VP9 encoder, for now you have to do:
>
> rm ~/.cache/gstreamer-1.0/registry.*
>
> export LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=i965
>
> gst-inspect-1.0 vaapi
>
>
> In theory that should be sufficient.
>
> Nicolas
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-- 
thanks,
sree
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