[Libva] Special libva binary bundled with IEGD

[andreas.larsson at multiq.se]

> Hi,
> As the libva standard moves on and evolves between the various releases of IEGD, shipping our own libva library ensures that the customer has a version of the library that our driver is compatible with.
>
> Fyi, our current driver is compatible with 0.29. Going forward, we're planning to be more aligned w/ the libva releases.
>
> ishu
Hi! Thanks for your quick answer! If I am to interpret it, basically 
you're saying that if we don't use the bundled precompiled libva we might 
risk instabilities, memory leaks etc?

Problem is that recent mplayer depends on a newer version of libva rather 
than the 0.29 version, so my question for that is if you have any road map 
at Intel regarding alignment with libva? Is it a high priority so to 
speak?

I asked Intel Premier Support about a roadmap but the only answer there 
was that it might show up a new version of libva in future versions of 
IEGD.

Do you have more insights in these matters and what can we expect?

Thanks in advance,
Andreas Larsson

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bian, Jonathan
> Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 12:31 PM
> To: andreas.larsson at multiq.se; libva at lists.freedesktop.org
> Cc: Verma, Ishu
> Subject: RE: Special libva binary bundled with IEGD
>
> Hi Andreas,
>
> My guess is that the IEGD driver has not been updated to work with the latest libva releases. I am copying Ishu Verma who supports the IEGD driver at Intel and he would be able to answer your question on this.
>
> Regards,
> Jonathan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: andreas.larsson at multiq.se [mailto:andreas.larsson at multiq.se]
> Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 12:24 AM
> To: libva at lists.freedesktop.org
> Cc: Bian, Jonathan
> Subject: Special libva binary bundled with IEGD
>
> Hi!
>
> Just wanted to ask a quick question regarding the bundled libva binary
> that comes with IEGD. Why is that needed? Any particular reasons? It seems
> that a custom compiled standard libva works just as fine.
>
> Maybe you Jonathan can shine any light on this? The IEDG manual doesn't
> say much other than that you should copy the file.
>
> The reason is that recent mplayers really needs more recent libva than the
> ones bundled with IEDG.
>
> Regards,
> Andreas Larsson
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