[Spice-devel] video passthrough ideas
Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
zeeshanak at gnome.org
Thu May 12 13:41:19 PDT 2011
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Marc-André Lureau <mlureau at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> b. GStreamer currently do no have working VAAPI plugins and AFAIK,
>> it won't have any for at least a few months more.
>
> What do you mean? It seems they exist according to the wiki: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/vaapi (http://www.splitted-desktop.com/~gbeauchesne/gstreamer-vaapi/)
Stress on the word "working" here. :) Try building them and/or see
how well they are maintained. There is no indication of even were the
VCS repository is. On top of that its GPL and uses FFMPEG, facts for
which gst guys won't accept merging these plugins into gst proper.
> Fluendo also has its commercial vaapi/vadpau plugins: http://www.fluendo.com/press/fluendo-codec-pack-release-11-keeping-technologies-fast-pace/
Hmm.. do we really want to depend on non-free plugins? :)
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Regards,
Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124
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