GStreamer and helper libraries.
* `vaapidecode' is used to decode JPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4:2, H.264 AVC,
- H.264 MVC, VP8, VC-1, WMV3 videos to VA surfaces, depending on the
- underlying hardware capabilities. This plugin is also able to
- implicitly download the decoded surface to raw YUV buffers.
+ H.264 MVC, VP8, VC-1, WMV3, HEVC videos to VA surfaces, depending
+ on the underlying hardware capabilities. This plugin is also able
+ to implicitly download the decoded surface to raw YUV buffers.
* `vaapiencode_<CODEC>' is used to encode into MPEG-2, H.264 AVC,
- H.264 MVC, JPEG, VP8 videos, depending on the actual value of
- <CODEC> (mpeg2, h264, etc.). By default, raw format bitstreams
+ H.264 MVC, JPEG, VP8, HEVC videos, depending on the actual value
+ of <CODEC> (mpeg2, h264, etc.). By default, raw format bitstreams
are generated, so the result may be piped to a muxer.
e.g. qtmux for MP4 containers.
Features
--------
- * VA-API support from 0.29 to 0.37
- * JPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264 AVC, H.264 MVC, VP8 and VC-1 ad-hoc decoders
- * MPEG-2, H.264 AVC,H.264 MVC, JPEG and VP8 ad-hoc encoders
+ * VA-API support from 0.29 to 0.38
+ * JPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264 AVC, H.264 MVC, VP8, VC-1 and HEVC ad-hoc decoders
+ * MPEG-2, H.264 AVC,H.264 MVC, JPEG, VP8 and HEVC ad-hoc encoders
* OpenGL rendering through VA/GLX or GLX texture-from-pixmap + FBO
+ * Support for EGL backend
* Support for the Wayland display server
* Support for headless decode pipelines with VA/DRM
* Support for major HW video decoding solutions on Linux (AMD, Intel, NVIDIA)
* Support for HW video encoding on Intel HD Graphics hardware
* Support for VA Video Processing APIs (VA/VPP)
- Scaling and color conversion
- - Image enhancement filters: Sharpening, Noise Reduction
+ - Image enhancement filters: Sharpening, Noise Reductio, Color Balance,
+ Skin-Tone-Enhancement
- Advanced deinterlacing: Motion-Adaptive, Motion-Compensated
Software requirements
* GStreamer 1.2.x (up to including GStreamer 1.6):
- libglib2.0-dev (>= 2.28)
+ libglib2.0-dev (>= 2.32)
libgstreamer1.0-dev (>= 1.2.0)
libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev (>= 1.2.0)
libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-dev (>= 1.2.0)
DRM: libva-dev (>= 1.1.0), libdrm-dev, libudev-dev
X11: libva-dev (>= 1.0.1)
GLX: libva-dev (>= 1.0.3)
- Wayland: libva-dev (>= 1.1.0), libwayland-dev (>= 0.95.0)
+ Wayland: libva-dev (>= 1.1.0), libwayland-dev (>= 1.0.2)
Hardware requirements
* AMD platforms with UVD2 (XvBA supported)
* Intel Eaglelake (G45)
* Intel Ironlake, Sandybridge, Ivybridge, Haswell and Broadwell (HD Graphics)
- * Intel BayTrail
+ * Intel BayTrail, Braswell
* Intel Poulsbo (US15W)
* Intel Medfield or Cedar Trail
* NVIDIA platforms with PureVideo (VDPAU supported)