[FFmpeg-devel] vdpau/vaapi/xvba

[Ronald S. Bultje]

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Uoti Urpala <uoti.urpala at pp1.inet.fi> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 16:06 +0200, Gwenole Beauchesne wrote:
>> VA-API:
>> - Encoding support
>
> Is this worth anything? In which use cases, if any, does it beat
> software encoders? What I've read of hardware encoding implementations
> before they've not been particularly useful.

What about video-conferencing on an iPhone. I assure you, without
hardware encoding, it'll look even more like shit.

Ronald