[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 0/2] VDA decoder for ffmpeg

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 04:02:05PM +0800, Xidorn Quan wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Reimar Döffinger
> <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de>wrote:
> 
> > Thanks, I really like the feature, but why can't you instantiate a full
> > H.264 decoder with VDA HWAccel like an external application would instead
> > of reimplementing lots of the header parsing?
> >
> 
> I have considered the solution you said, and obviously, life would
> be a lot more simple if the decoder be implemented that way. But for
> two reasons I decided not to use it:
>


> 1. Origin H.264 decoder never guarantees that HWAccel will be used.
> 
>    For some cases, the decoder doesn't call get_format, and we will
>    have no chance to ask it to use HWAccel. If it happens,
>    the h264_vda decoder will automatically fall back to software
>    decoding without any warning or something like this.
> 
>    I don't think it is a proper behavior for this decoder. It should
>    either succeed to initialize and then use VDA to decode, or fail
>    if it can't and let caller to fall back itself.
> 
>    In fact, sometimes, VDA can decode a video but H.264 decoder
>    refuses to use it and do decoding itself.

how can these problems be reproduced? / where can i find h264 samples
that show these problems ?


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