3 VA-API support to GStreamer
5 Copyright (C) 2010 Splitted-Desktop Systems
11 gstreamer-vaapi helper libraries are available under the terms of the
12 GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1+.
14 gstreamer-vaapi plugin elements are available under the terms of the
15 GNU General Public License v2+.
21 gstreamer-vaapi consists in a collection of VA-API based plugins for
22 GStreamer and helper libraries.
24 * `vaapidecode' is used to decode MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, VC-1, WMV3
25 videos to video/x-vaapi-surfaces surfaces, depending on the
26 underlying HW capabilities.
28 * `vaapiconvert' is used to convert from video/x-raw-yuv pixels to
29 video/x-vaapi-surface surfaces.
31 * `vaapisink' is used to display video/x-vaapi-surface surfaces to
38 * VA-API support from 0.29 to 0.31
39 * OpenGL rendering through VA/GLX or GLX texture-from-pixmap + FBO
40 * Support for major HW video decoding solutions on Linux (AMD, Intel, NVIDIA)
48 * libgstreamer0.10-dev >= 0.10.0
49 * libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev >= 0.10.16
50 * libva-dev >= 0.31.0-1+sds9 (VA/GLX)
51 * libavcodec-dev >= 0.6 or with <libavcodec/vaapi.h>
55 * AMD platforms with UVD2 (XvBA supported)
56 * Intel Eaglelake (G45)
57 * Intel Ironlake (HD Graphics)
58 * Intel Poulsbo (US15W)
59 * NVIDIA platforms with PureVideo (VDPAU supported)
65 * Play an H.264 video with an MP4 container in fullscreen mode
66 $ gst-launch-0.10 -v filesrc location=/path/to/video.mp4 ! \
67 qtdemux ! vaapidecode ! vaapisink fullscreen=true
73 * No ad-hoc parser, vaapidecoder currently relies on FFmpeg
74 * MPEG-4 Part-2 (DivX) has decoding bugs