From: Younes M <you...@gm...> - 2008-03-29 17:33:05
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Tom Cooksey wrote: > Isn't XvMC going to be depricated in favor of VAAPI? Not sure if it's of any > use > to you, but Qt 4.4.0 has an OpenGL playback widget for Phonon GStreamer > backend. It uses a shader to do the color-space conversion and is avaliable > under the GPLv2/GPLv3. > > If your interest is XcMV because of client-side support, I may be able to > find someone in Trolltech willing to write a Phonon/GStreamer playback > widget which uses VAAPI. It may not be able to make use of all the VAAPI > features as many of them need to be supported in the decoder elements > (I think anyway). Ping me if this is of interest. > > > Cheers, > > Tom > Hi Tom, I went with XvMC because it has a lot of client support as you said. I think it would be immediately useful to a lot of people, plus there are lots of resources out there. Implementing VAAPI is on my list of nice-to-haves if I have time, but at the very least I'll try to keep the code modularized enough to make a VAAPI implementation as painless as possible. I think having VAAPI support would kick start things and get more clients to support it, so it's definitely worth the effort. If I have time at towards the end to do a basic VAAPI implementation I'll definitely keep your offer in mind. Thank you very much, Younes |