Missed CC to list (forwarded) ----- Original message ----- From Steven Newbury <st...@snewbury.org.uk> Sent Thu, 24 Mar 2011, 12:07:06 GMT To Sander Jansen <s.jan...@gmail.com> Subject Re: [Intel-gfx] Pineview + libva
> ----- Original message ----- > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Steven Newbury <st...@snewbury.org.uk> > > wrote: > > > On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 14:52 +0000, Steven Newbury wrote: > > > > I'm building a HD network media player device and thought VAAPI was > > > > supposed to be supported on Pineview, am I wrong? > > > > > > To answer my own question somewhat, from the list here: > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_GMA > > > > > > It's clear the Pineview doesn't support hw VC-1 or AVC, but does > > > support full MPEG2, but I guess, given the utility of MPEG2 hw accel > > > vs h.264 there isn't too much interest in getting that working. > > > > > > I'll just have to hope there's enough performance from the CPU to cope > > > with 720p material... > > > > I believe libva mostly supports gen4 and up. Pineview is supposed to > > be gen3. Perhaps XVMC may still work for it though. > I'm using MythTV, AFAIK they've dropped XvMC in favour of VAAPI and VDPAU. > > > In general don't buy hardware unless you know the driver supports your > > desired features. I should have listened to myself when I got a G45 > > and had the hope the h264 decoding support wouldn't take too long... > > Always good advise! In my case h.264 would have been really nice to have, but > hw > MPEG2 is actually very useful for MythTV, and I can always transcode HD > content > if necessary. > > What would be needed to get libva supporting the gen3 MPEG2 accelerator > functionality, is there much difference between gen3 and gen4 in that regard? _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
