[VDPAU] [PATCH v8] Extend the VDPAU API to support H.265/HEVC Decoding

[Aaron Plattner]

On 02/09/2015 10:40 AM, José Hiram Soltren wrote:
> This patch adds an API for player applications to utilize VDPAU for
> hardware-accelerated playback of H.265/HEVC streams.
>
> The goals of this API are:
> - enable hardware accelerated decoding of H.265/HEVC content under VDPAU;
> - provide a reference implementation for H.265/HEVC hardware decoding that
>    is vendor agnostic;
> - provide enough data for H.265/HEVC hardware acceleration implementations
>    from multiple vendors to be able to use the same API;
>
> This patch is written against "version one" of the H.265/HEVC Specification,
> Rec. ITU-T H.265 (04/2013), available at:
>
>      http://handle.itu.int/11.1002/1000/12296
>
> A future patch against this header may address bug fixes, and may support
> the new features described in "version two" of the H.265/HEVC Specification,
> Rec. ITU-T H.265 v2 (10/2014).
>
> Note that the API does need to be self documenting with Doxygen markup,
> which we (NVIDIA) will generate and post as an update to our public VDPAU
> documentation.
>
> This is version 8 of the patch.
>
> Version 1 was the original version.
>
> Version 2 was a minor cleanup change.
>
> Version 3 incorporated 10- and 12-bit formats.
>
> Version 4 clarified some documentation related to H.265/HEVC support.
>
> Version 5 clarified some documentation related to H.265/HEVC support
> and correcting the Specification URI above.
>
> Version 6 further corrected the Specification URI above, re-ordered the
> fields in VdpPictureInfoHEVC to agree with the Specification, and added
> additional documentation for some fields. It also corrected some cosmetic
> indentation errors.
>
> Version 7 removed the sps_sub_layer_ordering_info_present_flag, added a
> note on implementing clauses 8.3 through 8.7, clarified the meaning of
> sps_max_dec_pic_buffering_minus1, moved the scaling lists to follow
> scaling_list_enabled_flag, clarified comments on pps_beta_offset_div2
> and pps_tc_offset_div2, and added "Ignored otherwise." or "Invalid
> values are ignored" comments to several fields.
>
> Version 8 truncated a number of fields related to reference pictures to
> 8 bit types, e.g. uint8_t.
> ---
>   include/vdpau/vdpau.h |  329 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>   1 file changed, 328 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Pushed as commit c199b6107fda78cc575f0bdace6327e85add7fa9.