[Libav-user] Using Videotoolbox H.264 decode on MacOS

[Philippe Noël]

Bumping this, anyone has experience working with videotoolbox on libav?

Philippe

On Sun, Feb 2, 2020 at 11:53 AM Philippe Noël <
philippe_noel at college.harvard.edu> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to use Hwaccel H.264 decoding on MacOS. I have MacOS Catalina
> (Late 2015 model) and when I run "ffmpeg -hwaccels" it shows "videotoolbox"
> twice. From the FFmpeg website, it seems videotoolbox is implemented for
> both encode and decode of H.264 videos.
>
> I've found the encoder name, "h264_videotoolbox" but I can't find the name
> to feed to "avcodec_find_decoder_by_name" for the videotoolbox decoder. I
> was searching online and couldn't find much, but found that apparently
> standard "h264" decoder will use videotoolbox hwaccel if properly set up,
> is that correct? How should I proceed to decode H264 with videotoolbox, how
> do I tell the decoder to use videotoolbox hwaccel with h264, or what is the
> name of the videotoolbox decoder?
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Philippe
>
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