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

wm4 nfxjfg at googlemail.com
Fri Jan 9 23:30:21 CET 2015


On Fri, 9 Jan 2015 17:17:00 -0500
compn <tempn at mi.rr.com> wrote:

> 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.

Maintaining decoders is the point of this project.

Besides, there are some more things missing from the patch.

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

The libstagefright decoding wrapper is apparently a piece of shit. Who
even uses it?

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

I don't see any nice things.


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