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

[Oliver Seitz]

> Does VA-API support 1080p60? That is what G520 supports.

I have not tested, but I presume so. I've played two 1080p24 files 
simultaneously, which should demand similar power. Recently my needs are 
more high resolution than high frame rate. I've just run a benchmark, 
see end of this mail.

> Is there de-interlacing? I consider that the most important
> VDPAU feature.

I have no idea, I must admit. But apart from watching TV, interlaced 
video is nothing I use nowadays.

>> 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.

Well, OK, if I did not try it the right way, scratch my findings. NVidia 
is great and better than Intel.

>>> 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).

I did not want to blame anyone. I've used this list to get in touch with 
other users and perhaps developers to find out if there is a chance for 
vaapi to become a standard mplayer feature. Indeed, you've pointed me to 
the place to go, thank you. Sorry if this was offensive, yet it was 
partly successful.

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

I will do.

Greets,
Kiste


P.S.:

CPU load according to top was approx. 3%, never reaching 4%.

Screen refresh rate was 60Hz. 21312 Frames played in 355.224 seconds is 
about 59.99 fps. Video was not 1080 pixel high, though.


$> time mplayer -vo vaapi -benchmark -nosound Sintel.2010.1080p.mkv
MPlayer SVN-r34578-4.7 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote 
control.

Playing Sintel.2010.1080p.mkv.
libavformat version 53.22.0 (internal)
libavformat file format detected.
[lavf] stream 0: video (h264), -vid 0
[lavf] stream 1: audio (ac3), -aid 0, -alang eng, AC3 5.1 @ 640 Kbps
[lavf] stream 2: subtitle (text), -sid 0, -slang ger
[lavf] stream 3: subtitle (text), -sid 1, -slang eng
[lavf] stream 4: subtitle (text), -sid 2, -slang spa
[lavf] stream 5: subtitle (text), -sid 3, -slang fre
[lavf] stream 6: subtitle (text), -sid 4, -slang ita
[lavf] stream 7: subtitle (text), -sid 5, -slang dut
[lavf] stream 8: subtitle (text), -sid 6, -slang pol
[lavf] stream 9: subtitle (text), -sid 7, -slang por
[lavf] stream 10: subtitle (text), -sid 8, -slang rus
[lavf] stream 11: subtitle (text), -sid 9, -slang vie
VIDEO:  [H264]  1920x818  0bpp  24.000 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
Load subtitles in ./
libva: VA-API version 0.32.0
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns 0
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
libavcodec version 53.39.1 (internal)
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
==========================================================================
Audio: no sound
Starting playback...
Unsupported PixelFormat 61
Unsupported PixelFormat 81
Unsupported PixelFormat 61
[VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=0.
Unsupported PixelFormat 61
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
[VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=1.
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [vaapi] 1920x818 => 1920x818 H.264 VA-API Acceleration
[VD_FFMPEG] XVMC-accelerated MPEG-2.
V: 887.9   0/  0  3% 36%  0.0% 0 0


BENCHMARKs: VC:  26.781s VO: 325.540s A:   0.000s Sys:   2.852s =  355.174s
BENCHMARK%: VC:  7.5404% VO: 91.6565% A:  0.0000% Sys:  0.8031% = 100.0000%

Exiting... (End of file)

real	5m55.224s
user	0m4.460s
sys	0m5.392s