On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 11:19:26PM +0100, Robert Swindells wrote: > > Rhialto <[email protected]> wrote: > >On Sat 29 Jun 2019 at 20:55:16 +0000, [email protected] wrote: > >> Supposedly it's even more efficient video decoding, but I didn't do a > >> comparison (It would be pretty easy to do, since pkgsrc mesa does build > >> VDPAU). > > > >With the Linux I now have on my Pinebook, there are vdpau drivers for > >the graphics chipset, but no "regular" acceleration. As a result, video > >players can play 1080p videos perfectly, as long as you don't try to use > >anything GUI-ish, because that is still slow as molasses... > > Linux on the Pinebook should be able to have accelerated graphics. You > may need to add some binary blobs for the GPU to enable it. > > The Pinebook SoC has video decoder hardware that is separate from the > Mali GPU. We probably need to decide which API to support for it. > > I suspect the efficiency depends on whether you are doing both decode > and display in hardware or GPU software or whether the main CPU is doing > the decode part. > > Latest x11 has broken accelerated video playback on my one Intel GPU > system, it used to have a working XV driver. > > Might be worth documenting which GPU models use particular acceleration > methods to know what has been tested.
someone(tm) (who probably doesn't want to be identified) said, if you are playing on pinebook with mpv, your best bet is mpv -vo drm outside of X. and right now it wastes a lot of resources converting yuv to rgb, because it doesn't detect yuv support.
