[Libva] Can libva run on platform without X11?

[Xiang, Haihao]

On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 09:18 +0800, hank peng wrote:
> Hi, guys:
> My platform's GUI is based on framebuffer, now I want to make use of
> Sandy Bridge i5 processor's GPU to implement a video player and there
> is no X11 running on my platform.
> I noticed that on libva's web site it says "the current video
> decode/encode interface is window system independent, so that
> potentially it can be used with graphics sub-systems other than X",
> but I downloaded the souce code of libva and found that there is no
> example to show me how to use it without X11. Is it possible that I
> just use libva to decode 
> and do scaling and then I write the pixel
> data to frame buffer?
> 
vaGetDisplay/vaPutSurface is dependence of your window system, so you
need to implement them by yourself.