[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] add VDPAU IMGFMTs

[Georgi Petrov]

>> someone said something about doing vdpau as a video filter to get
>> rid of the codec hacks... i cant remember the details.
>
> I don't think that will make any difference for that part, it would just
> be an alternative to the vo part only.
> Also, decoding into RAM would be better done completely in libavcodec.

Yap. Filters are after decoder in the chain, so the decoder decodes
into RAM and then the filter does its magic. The point of VDPAU's
codec part is to skip the CPU decoding (which is done before any
filter is put into the game), so implementing it as a filter is not
possible.