[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 00/16] vaapi: Improve infrastructure, add VP8 support

[wm4]

On Sun, 8 Jan 2017 18:08:38 +0000
Mark Thompson <sw at jkqxz.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> This merges the improved VAAPI decode infrastructure from libav, with various related parts updated to work together.
> 
> The aims of this series are:
> * Remove struct vaapi_context and move everything it used to do into lavc.
> * Simplify VAAPI support in the ffmpeg utility, using generic hwcontext code.
> * Add hwaccel hooks for VP8 and use them to add VAAPI VP8 decode support.
> * Generally clean up the VAAPI decoding code so that it's easier to debug and change.
> 
> The removal of struct vaapi_context is backward compatible - the structure is deprecated, but will continue to work until it gets removed in a future version bump.
> 
> The patches are:
> 1-4:   Some preparatory work to clean up the existing code and make the following patches simpler.
> 5:     Add the new VAAPI decode infrastructure.  Several patches are combined to avoid an intermediate with minor bugs which were later fixed in libav.
> 6-10:  Convert the VAAPI hwaccels which are also present in libav.
> 11:    Convert the VP9 hwaccel, which is not in libav.
> 12:    Change the ffmpeg utility to use the new infrastructure.
> 13:    Deprecate struct vaapi_context and remove the old infrastructure.
> 14:    Add hwaccel hooks to the generic VP8 code.
> 15:    Add the VAAPI VP8 decode hwaccel.
> 16:    Fix profiles to make VP8 decoding actually work.
> 
> Tested on Skylake, Kaby Lake and Polaris; with ffmpeg (uses new infrastructure) and mpv (uses the struct vaapi_context compatibility).  More testing on other platforms or with other lavc users welcome.

So I guess this doesn't need review...