3 VA-API support to GStreamer
5 Copyright (C) 2010-2011 Splitted-Desktop Systems
6 Copyright (C) 2011-2012 Intel Corporation
7 Copyright (C) 2011 Collabora Ltd.
13 gstreamer-vaapi helper libraries and plugin elements are available
14 under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1+
19 gstreamer-vaapi consists in a collection of VA-API based plugins for
20 GStreamer and helper libraries.
22 * `vaapidecode' is used to decode MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, VC-1, WMV3
23 videos to video/x-vaapi-surfaces surfaces, depending on the
24 underlying HW capabilities.
26 * `vaapiupload' is used to convert from video/x-raw-yuv pixels to
27 video/x-vaapi-surface surfaces.
29 * `vaapidownload' is used to convert from video/x-vaapi-surface
30 surfaces to video/x-raw-yuv pixels.
32 * `vaapipostproc' is used to postprocess video/x-vaapi-surface
33 surfaces, for e.g. deinterlacing.
35 * `vaapisink' is used to display video/x-vaapi-surface surfaces to
42 * VA-API support from 0.29 to 0.32
43 * MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264 and VC-1 ad-hoc decoders
44 * OpenGL rendering through VA/GLX or GLX texture-from-pixmap + FBO
45 * Support for major HW video decoding solutions on Linux (AMD, Intel, NVIDIA)
53 * libva-dev >= 1.0.3 (VA/GLX)
54 * libgstreamer0.10-dev >= 0.10.35.1
55 or with GstBaseSink::query()
56 * libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev >= 0.10.35
57 * libgstreamer-plugins-bad0.10-dev >= 0.10.22.1
58 or with GstVideoContext, GstSurfaceBuffer, codecparsers
60 If codecparsers-based decoders are not used:
62 * libavcodec-dev >= 0.6
63 or with <libavcodec/vaapi.h>
67 * AMD platforms with UVD2 (XvBA supported)
68 * Intel Eaglelake (G45)
69 * Intel Ironlake, Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge (HD Graphics)
70 * Intel Poulsbo (US15W)
71 * Intel Medfield or Cedar Trail
72 * NVIDIA platforms with PureVideo (VDPAU supported)
78 VA elements are automatically plugged into GStreamer pipelines. So,
79 using playbin2 should work as is. However, here are a few alternate
80 pipelines constructed manually.
82 * Play an H.264 video with an MP4 container in fullscreen mode
83 $ gst-launch-0.10 -v filesrc location=/path/to/video.mp4 ! \
84 qtdemux ! vaapidecode ! vaapisink fullscreen=true
86 * Play a raw MPEG-2 interlaced stream
87 $ gst-launch-0.10 -v filesrc location=/path/to/mpeg2.bits ! \
88 mpegvideoparse ! vaapidecode ! vaapipostproc ! vaapisink