[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/5] lavc : yami : add libyami decoder/encoder

[Timothy Gu]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 6:00 PM Jun Zhao <mypopydev at gmail.com> wrote:

> I know the worry after read the above thread.For Intel GPU HW accelerate
> decode/encode,
> now have 3 options in ffmpeg:
>
> 1. ffmpeg and QSV (Media SDK)
> 2. ffmpeg vaapi hw accelerate decoder/native vaapi encoder
> 3. ffmpeg and libyami
>
> And I know the guys prefer option 2 than 3, but I have a little question,
> what's the
> difference about ffmpeg/libyami and the other external codec library(e,g
> openh264,
> videotoolbox...)?
>

OpenH264 is software-only. VideoToolbox is Apple-only.


> As I know Intel have 3 full time Libyami developers, so no guarantee maybe
> is wrong.:)
>

That's true right now, but Intel has offered no guarantee for the future.

Timothy