[FFmpeg-cvslog] avconv: add support for VDPAU decoding

Michael Niedermayer michaelni at gmx.at
Tue Nov 26 15:56:35 CET 2013


On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 07:26:04PM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On 25.11.2013, at 14:42, Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> wrote:
> > Le tridi 3 frimaire, an CCXXII, Reimar Döffinger a écrit :
> >> Why, oh why, did this have to be part of avconv.
> >> That still is 0 use to everyone else who wants to use VDPAU, continuing
> >> the tradition of hwaccel support being a prime example of the same code
> >> being duplicated over and over and over...
> > 
> > Let us just make sure that ffmpeg's API is more practical for applications.
> 
> I suspect that you could just put exactly that code into a separate h264 decoder like for h264_vda.

IMHO yes that would be nice an more sane indeed


> That only leaves a better way for an application to select that codec than searching by its name.
> Of course it would be nice to be able to do more clever stuff like auto-selection of hardware acceleration and automatic software fallback, but it would be a start at least.
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