[FFmpeg-cvslog] r23369 - trunk/libavcodec/h264.c

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 10:39:47PM +0000, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> Baptiste Coudurier <baptiste.coudurier <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > On 05/31/2010 10:56 PM, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 03:02:10PM -0700, Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
> > >> Btw, why is VDPAU using a different API than what VAAPI and DXVA are using ?
> > >
> > > IMO: basically because nobody works on cleaning up the API, just like
> > > nobody works (much?) on implementing hardware-accelerated decoding
> > > to system memory.
> 
> iirc, you were the one suggesting it is useless because slow...
> (otoh, that is no excuse for me not working on it for over a year.)

Well, in comparison definitely. On the other hand there are even slower CPUs
around.
However more importantly it can serve as a testbed for such API things, provides
an example of how to use it and there might be parts that can be made public that
will reduce the amount of code duplicated between player supporting it, even
when they use it to display directly.