[MPlayer-dev-eng] how's the merging process against your vaapi counterpart

[Reimar Döffinger]

compn <tempn at twmi.rr.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 13 Nov 2013 22:37:05 +0800
>劉昭廷 <rainman59118 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> greetings, mplayer developement team
>> 
>> as a big fan of this great project and an Ati user, I'm glad to read
>> that you two are going to merge! :)
>
>no one offered to help.
>
>> but, the latest news was at late 2012, how is the process going on,
>> and waht if, I need vaapi support, can I directly use the svn
>snpshot?
>
>some ati cards can now be used with the vdpau support already in
>mplayer. you just have to install the right vdpau libs.

For Intel and AMD binary drivers the solution I'd purpose as official is to use the va_gl VDPAU driver.
It seemed to work in principle (a bit crash-happy, probably because XvBA is buggy), so unless there are unsolvable problems with it I think native vaapi support is not even desirable anymore.