[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Add -va for video acceleration

Gwenole Beauchesne gbeauchesne at splitted-desktop.com
Tue Feb 16 16:33:20 CET 2010


On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Uoti Urpala wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 13:37 +0100, Gwenole Beauchesne wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to add a -va option to MPlayer. This is intended for enabling
>> video acceleration. Sample usage:
>> $ mplayer -vo vaapi -va vaapi
>> $ mplayer -vo xv -va crystalhd
>>
>> We need a way to identify the video accelerator because this can't always
>> be implied from the VO. WDYT?
>
> I think the existing -vfm option would be suit this use too (preferring
> codecs using a particular kind of hardware decoding).

How? They all depend on FFmpeg. Or do you want to split them all as -vfm 
ffmpeg,ffmpeg_vaapi,ffmpeg_crystalhd? It's not really user-friendly.



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