3 VA-API support to GStreamer
5 Copyright (C) 2010-2011 Splitted-Desktop Systems
6 Copyright (C) 2011 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 * `vaapisink' is used to display video/x-vaapi-surface surfaces to
36 * VA-API support from 0.29 to 0.31
37 * OpenGL rendering through VA/GLX or GLX texture-from-pixmap + FBO
38 * Support for major HW video decoding solutions on Linux (AMD, Intel, NVIDIA)
46 * libgstreamer0.10-dev >= 0.10.35.1
47 or with GstBaseSink::query()
48 * libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev >= 0.10.35
49 * libgstreamer-plugins-bad0.10-dev >= 0.10.22.1
50 or with GstVideoContext, GstSurfaceBuffer
51 * libva-dev >= 1.0.3 (VA/GLX)
52 * libavcodec-dev >= 0.6
53 or with <libavcodec/vaapi.h>
57 * AMD platforms with UVD2 (XvBA supported)
58 * Intel Eaglelake (G45)
59 * Intel Ironlake (HD Graphics)
60 * Intel Poulsbo (US15W)
61 * NVIDIA platforms with PureVideo (VDPAU supported)
67 * Play an H.264 video with an MP4 container in fullscreen mode
68 $ gst-launch-0.10 -v filesrc location=/path/to/video.mp4 ! \
69 qtdemux ! vaapidecode ! vaapisink fullscreen=true
75 * No ad-hoc parser, vaapidecoder currently relies on FFmpeg