[Libav-user] Hardware decoding via libva

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

faeem <faeem.ali at ...> writes:

> Would someone please direct me to documentation 
> and/or some other explanation of how to perform 
> hardware decoding using VAAPI/libva with ffmpeg's 
> libav libraries. Code examples would be great.

I know of two examples, the va-api code in vlc and 
the code in a patch for MPlayer, see for example 
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.mplayer.devel/61734/focus=61744

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>   // FIXME use direct rendering
> 
> I need to know how to fix that FIXME.

This is not related to va-api at all.

> - The main modification I've made is to render the video via OpenGL 
> instead of using an overlay.

I sounds like a very welcome addition to the FFmpeg 
codebase, please consider sending a patch.

Carl Eugen