[FFmpeg-devel] GPU Hardware Acceleration [was Re: openCL support]

[Patrick Shirkey]

On Thu, March 15, 2012 12:23 am, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:56:15PM +0100, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>>
>> > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 03:23:39AM +0100, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> Maybe it would help if I rephrased the question.
>> >>
>> >> "Are there any parts of FFMPEG that would benefit from Hardware
>> >> Acceleration that do not already have development in process?"
>> >
>> > libavfilter, high quality deinterlace, noise reduce, temporal
>> > interpolation, postprocess (spp in the highest quality setting comes
>> > to mind as something thats relatively simple, very computationally
>> > intensive and highly parallizeable)
>> >
>>
>> Thanks Michael for your valuable feedback.
>>
>> Of these items can we prioritise them for development? They are all
>> useful
>> but which would have the most benefit?
>
> maybe spp as its too slow in its highest quality setting
>

Note that AMD released open source code for its Fusion (Trinity) drivers
this week.

Can we identify any specific locations in the spp codebase that would be a
good place to start or what exactly we would need from the vendor side to
get that code migrated?


> also other open source filters should be investigated to see if
> theres something that could be ported to libavfilter that then
> could be a great candidate for hw accel
>


Does anyone have any suggestions for filters that would make the cut?




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Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd