[Libva] User friendly H.264 encoding

[Xiang, Haihao]

> I have a Core i5-2400 which should be able to accelerate H.264 encoding
> AFAIK.  I tried to find out how this is done, but only found a command
> line encoder which uses raw YUV video as input

Do you mean 'avcenc' ? It is used for testing. Please try with staging branch.

> , and encoding parameters
> can't be specified.

What parameter do you want to specify?
The usage of avcenc is 
Usage: avnenc <width> <height> <input_yuvfile> <output_avcfile> [qp=qpvalue|fb=framebitrate] [mode=0(I frames only)/1(I and P frames)/2(I, P and B frames)

> 
> Is there some way to use standard tools like handbrake with hardware
> acceleration?

Gstreamer with vaapi support.  But I'm not sure it is stable or not.

> 
> Regards,
> Tino
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