[Libva] Status of libva and mplayer/ffmpeg?

[Gwenole Beauchesne]

Hi,

2011/10/6 Erik Slagter <erik at slagter.name>:

> I know that Gwénole submitted patches to mplayer, but they were burnt (as
> usual). Gwénole, if you still have the time and the interest, can you please
> try again? My experience is that the guys aren't that bad, they just have a
> big mouth and are somewhat protective of "their" program ;-)

MPlayer/VA new home is here:
<https://gitorious.org/vaapi/mplayer>

but it won't receive much work at this time. Active development is
going on GStreamer and FFmpeg.

> The patches of the "libva jumbo patch" include patching for ffmpeg. AFAIK
> these are already included in ffmpeg nowadays, am I right in this
> assumption?

Yes, FFmpeg has all necessary patches.

> Wouldn't it be easiest to define a few extra codecs in libavcodec (like
> h264_vaapi) and then both the command line tool and mplayer could use these
> without hassle?

MPlayer is already using FFmpeg. Or I don't understand what you mean.

Regards,
Gwenole.