[FFmpeg-devel] VDPAU decoding: access to frames

fixounet at free.fr fixounet
Tue Jun 23 13:47:06 CEST 2009


Quoting Jean-Michel Pour? <jmpoure at free.fr>:

> Dear friends,
>
> When using video editors like Kdenlive, it would be very useful to have
> access to hardware decoded frames. Is this a possible feature of FFmpeg
> and VDPAU in the future. Can it be implemented yet?
>
> I am asking this question publicly because everyone is waiting for such
> a feature, which would make GNU/Linux a major platform for video editing
> and cinema.
>
> Any information on hardware decoding development plans are appreciated.
>

You can do it as of today since the actual decoding in on the caller side.
Call  VDPAU getDataSurface at the end to retrieve the YV12 data

Hoping that helps




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