[Libav-user] Hardware decoding via libva

[Xiang, Haihao]

VA API has vaPutSurface() to directly render the decoded frame on a
drawable, you can refer to the code of mplayer vaapi
(git://gitorious.org/vaapi/mplayer.git)

Regards
Haihao


> You're misunderstanding some concepts. There are two operations that can be accelerated by GPU: decoding and yuv->rgb converting. First thing can be achieved by vaapi as you mentioned. Second, by using OpenGL shader(I prefer OpenGL as it's cross-platform. Other option is to use DirectX on Win platform) that will convert YUV->RGB and draw converted frame immediately.
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> 22.12.2012, в 14:15, faeem написал(а):
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> > On 22/12/2012 02:53, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> >> faeem <faeem.ali at ...> writes:
> >> 
> >> 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 [...] 
> > Thanks. I'll be looking into those examples ASAP.
> > 
> >>>   // FIXME use direct rendering
> >>> 
> >>> I need to know how to fix that FIXME.
> >> This is not related to va-api at all.
> > I selected that //FIXME because it specified "direct rendering", which I took to mean "handled by the GPU". It seems I was mistaken there.
> > 
> > My conceptual understanding of va-api thus far, within the ffmpeg framework, is that libavcodec will read an encoded video frame, then use va-api and the GPU to perform decoding of that frame instead of performing decoding in software.
> > 
> > The end result will probably be a frame in YUV. I'll need to run the YUV to RGB conversion on each frame if I'm running OpenGL and this will still be CPU intensive. I would benefit from the hardware frame decoding though, and that alone should make a significant difference.
> > 
> > Is this correct?
> > 
> > Faeem
> > 
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