[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] lavc/qsv: fallback to the default mfx implementation for internal session on Windows

[Hendrik Leppkes]

On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 8:04 AM Xiang, Haihao
<haihao.xiang-at-intel.com at ffmpeg.org> wrote:
>
> From: Haihao Xiang <haihao.xiang at intel.com>
>
> The mfx implementation based on D3D11 is expected for an internal
> session on Windows, however sometimes this implemntation is not
> supported [1]. A fallback to the default mfx implementation is added in
> this patch.
>
> [1] https://github.com/intel/cartwheel-ffmpeg/issues/246
>

>From the issue description, the user is trying to use it a as software
library, not a hardware one?
I don't think software fallback, especially an automatic one, is
really quite appropriate. When someone requests a "qsv" encoder, they
expect hardware.

- Hendrik