[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/2] add libyami.cpp for h264 decoding by libyami

[compn]

On Fri, 9 Jan 2015 14:44:32 +0100
wm4 <nfxjfg at googlemail.com> wrote:

> What's the point of using this library, if ffmpeg already has
> most of the hw decoding infrastructure itself?

probably so we dont have to maintain every single little hw decoding
and encoding feature , and libyami will do this for us.

same thing libstagefright does for us. so we dont have to test our
ffmpeg hw decoders against every single piece of hardware.

the future plans for libyami are pretty nice,
https://www.mail-archive.com/libva@lists.freedesktop.org/msg02826.html

-compn