[Libva] Status of libva and mplayer/ffmpeg?

[Erik Slagter]

Hi all,

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

Okay, thanks. Google (still) points to your old page with patches to old 
versions of mplayer.

>> 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.

What I mean is that ffmpeg (or actually: the libavcodec lib) would 
feature e.g. an h264_vaapi codec that would decode (encode?!) any stream 
like the interal decoder (vs. libx264) would do, a drop-in replacement. 
I guess that way no player program that uses ffmpeg (including the 
ffmpeg cli tool) would be able to use vaapi without patching.

But I guess there is a good reason not to do it that way ;-)