[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH][7/8] Add VA API accelerated H.264 decoding (take 4)

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 07:43:52PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 04:35:02PM +0100, Gwenole Beauchesne wrote:
> > Hi,
> 
> Hi
> 
> Please factorize the code somehow.
> I dont want to have all codecs salted with 2 dozen video acceleration APIs
> 
> I can see 2 obvious ways
> A. each decoder could output through a common API that then outside and
> after the codec is converted to VAAPI/VDPAU structs
> B. a AVHWAccel struct is added similar to AVCodec and that codecs are
> only allowed to call its members like start_frame() start_slice() end_frame()
> and such
> 
> Iam too tired ATM to say which of the 2 is better or if there is a 3rd that is
> better than both but both look better than what all this is heading toward ...

C. as stephen suggested, outputting decoded surfaces
   + my suggestion of a AVHWAccel struct for each HW decoder ...

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