[MPlayer-users] Any plans for VA-API?

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Oliver Seitz <info <at> vtnd.de> writes:

> vaapi does full bitstream offloading for h264, i.e. mplayer 
> plays 1920x1080 video using 1-2% CPU. vdpau uses approx. 20%, 
> which sounds like not full hardware decoding.

There never was VDPAU hardware that did not do full hardware 
decoding for H264.

Does VA-API support 1080p60? That is what G520 supports.
Is there de-interlacing? I consider that the most important 
VDPAU feature.

> The most obvious difference I saw was that vaapi did decode 
> two videos at the same time without any effort, while vdpau 
> seemed to be very confused and gave two horribly stuttering 
> videos.

I decoded four (or five?) 1080 video simultaneously with pre-520 
hardware without problems.

> > No, it is a pity that nobody sent a patch to mplayer-dev-eng.
> 
> I'd love to, but I can't  I'm a (perhaps experienced) user, but 
> no programmer of the C family of languages.

Then please do not send mails that make the impression that it 
is the MPlayer developer's fault that VDPAU was heavily pushed 
(=patches were sent) by Nvidia while nobody cares to send 
patches for VA-API (and XVBA).

Or in other words: Please send your request to the recipients 
who actually can change something.

Carl Eugen