[Libva] VP8 accelerated on N2807 ?

[Sean V Kelley]

Hi,

On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 12:05 AM, Michel Memeteau - EKIMIA <
contact at ekimia.fr> wrote:
>
> Hi sean,
>
> I just saw that skylake/broadwell have VP8 decoding support, great !
>
> But what about baytrail?
>

Updated kernel patches are in review for baytrail.  We also have new user
mode driver.  Once I get the kernel patches accepted, we will have a viable
upstream implementation.


>
> And then  haswell, ivybridge etc... will never get VP8 support ?
>


There does not exist hardware support in those older platforms for VP8.
Instead you can make use of libvpx.

Thanks,

Sean


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> 2014-07-07 21:59 GMT+02:00 Sean V Kelley <sean.v.kelley at intel.com>:
>>
>> Hi Michel,
>>
>> VP8 on Baytrail is not based around the GEN GPU Media pipeline, but
>> rather a separate media block supported by the older PSB_VIDEO driver.
>> Currently we are working on upstreaming the Baytrail VP8 decode support.
>> The previous implementation, based on Android, is located on github but
>> uses deprecated API.  We plan to have the kernel and refactored patches
>> upstreamed later this year.
>>
>> For now, you can access the deprecated driver, a libva wrapper for
>> blitting, and kernel patches here:
>>
>> https://github.com/01org/psb_video
>> https://github.com/seanvk/libva_wrapper
>> https://github.com/seanvk/vxd392-drm-intel-next
>>
>> As I mentioned we will be providing upstreamed refactoring later this
>> year.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Sean
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Michel EKIMIA <contact at ekimia.fr> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all , I 'm using libVA on Ubuntu 14.04 on a baytrail  Celeron N2807 .
>>>
>>> I would like to see some accelarated VP8 videos via the GPU.
>>>
>>> Currently, vainfo does not indicate anything about VP8 , What do I need
>>> to get VP8 accelerated on N2807 ?
>>>
>>>
>>> vainfo
>>> libva info: VA-API version 0.35.0
>>> libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
>>> libva info: Trying to open
>>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i965_drv_video.so
>>> libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_35
>>> libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
>>> vainfo: VA-API version: 0.35 (libva 1.3.0)
>>> vainfo: Driver version: Intel i965 driver - 1.3.0
>>> vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
>>>       VAProfileMPEG2Simple            :    VAEntrypointVLD
>>>       VAProfileMPEG2Simple            :    VAEntrypointEncSlice
>>>       VAProfileMPEG2Main              :    VAEntrypointVLD
>>>       VAProfileMPEG2Main              :    VAEntrypointEncSlice
>>>       VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline:    VAEntrypointVLD
>>>       VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline:    VAEntrypointEncSlice
>>>       VAProfileH264Main               :    VAEntrypointVLD
>>>       VAProfileH264Main               :    VAEntrypointEncSlice
>>>       VAProfileH264High               :    VAEntrypointVLD
>>>       VAProfileH264High               :    VAEntrypointEncSlice
>>>       VAProfileVC1Simple              :    VAEntrypointVLD
>>>       VAProfileVC1Main                :    VAEntrypointVLD
>>>       VAProfileVC1Advanced            :    VAEntrypointVLD
>>>       VAProfileNone                   :    VAEntrypointVideoProc
>>>       VAProfileJPEGBaseline           :    VAEntrypointVLD
>>>
>>>
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>> --
>> Sean V. Kelley <sean.v.kelley at intel.com>
>> Open Source Technology Center / SSG
>> Intel Corp.
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Sean V. Kelley <sean.v.kelley at intel.com>
Open Source Technology Center / SSG
Intel Corp.
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