Bug 341109 – media-plugins/gst-plugins-vdpau: add vdpau plugin for gstreamer

• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Herbert Wantesh 2010-10-15 11:39:54 UTC]

add vdpau plugin for gstreamer

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Herbert Wantesh 2010-10-15 11:41:10 UTC]

Created attachment 250693 [details]
ebuild for gst-plugins-vdpau-0.10.14

[Comment 2 Herbert Wantesh 2010-10-15 11:41:37 UTC]

Created attachment 250695 [details]
ebuild for gst-plugins-vdpau-0.10.18

[Comment 3 Herbert Wantesh 2010-10-15 11:42:02 UTC]

Created attachment 250697 [details]
ebuild for gst-plugins-vdpau-0.10.19

[Comment 4 Mart Raudsepp 2010-10-23 21:47:40 UTC]

I'm happy to add it if I know someone is testing the latest ~arch each time, and then also stabilize on first user request after a month.
Have you tested the functionality in depth, etc?

[Comment 5 Arun Raghavan (RETIRED) 2010-11-04 12:24:01 UTC]

I'll test these once we get 0.10.20 in tree since that adds the H.264 and MPEG4 decoders. Do note that these are only good for playing with manually - they will not be be used by Totem, etc.

[Comment 6 Lukas Zavodny 2011-05-28 10:28:59 UTC]

I've triled last version, build was ok, but I am unable to configure gstreamer to successfully use vdpau as backends. Is there any progres with this?

[Comment 7 Arun Raghavan (RETIRED) 2011-09-27 02:20:02 UTC]

(In reply to comment #6)
> I've triled last version, build was ok, but I am unable to configure gstreamer
> to successfully use vdpau as backends. Is there any progres with this?

Ranks will be assigned to these elements upstream when they are deemed ready for common use.

[Comment 8 Mart Raudsepp 2015-01-02 03:44:30 UTC]

Note that VDPAU plugins aren't much loved upstream, especially in 1.x - H.264 isn't even supported (code is commented out from build).
Instead it is suggested to use the VA-API plugins (media-plugins/gst-plugins-vaapi), together with the appropriate bridges for graphics card that do decode acceleration via VDPAU API (e.g open source radeon). I guess that might be x11-libs/libva-vdpau-driver then.

[Comment 9 Marek Paśnikowski 2015-10-21 14:43:08 UTC]

What is the current status of gstreamer+vdpau in Gentoo?
I am watching h.264 videos with gstreamer every day on ~amd64 so I believe I am a perfect test subject for this. So far I am using the software decoder through the XV extension, but would really like to help push the hardware acceleration to the working state. Unfortunately, the only information on that topic that I can find is years old or does not apply to Gentoo.

[Comment 10 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2015-10-25 13:57:39 UTC]

As leio said, you can use gst-plugins-vaapi for now with the USE=vdpau on libva and relevant VIDEO_CARDS set in make.conf.

[Comment 11 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2016-09-18 09:25:38 UTC]

So, did you try gst-plugins-vaapi ?