On Thu, 10 Jan 2013, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > On 01/09/13 23:18, Alexander Graf wrote: > > > > On 09.01.2013, at 21:25, Anthony Liguori wrote: > > > >> > >> Since we really can't guarantee that libva will initialize okay, we > >> need to more gracefully handle falling back to another encoding > >> type. > > > > In fact, doesn't libavcodec / gstreamer support vaapi? If we could > > just send our updates to a library and have that determine whether > > vaapi is available or maybe fall back to software H.264 encoding, > > people without vaapi compatible hardware (or software) could exploit > > this feature too. > > Using libavcodec directly is a non-starter as distros don't ship that > due to the multimedia codec patent mess.
libavcodec is certainly available on my ubuntu and debian installs.
