902841 – GStreamer: please consider enabling the new VA-API plugin

Bug 902841 - GStreamer: please consider enabling the new VA-API plugin

Summary: GStreamer: please consider enabling the new VA-API plugin

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 835149

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	GStreamer package maintainers

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Reported:	2023-03-23 19:32 UTC by Johannes Penßel
Modified:	2023-05-30 20:53 UTC (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Description Johannes Penßel 2023-03-23 19:32:57 UTC

GStreamer has two different plugins for hardware acceleration: GstVAAPI and GstVA. Only the former is currently available in the Gentoo repos (gst-plugins-vaapi). The problem is that this plugin is deprecated and newer versions of WebkitGTK blacklist it by default. (https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/790) This breaks hardware accelerated video in Webkit-based browsers on Gentoo, which would otherwise work with the new plugin.

Please consider enabling GstVA as a build option in gst-plugins-bad (-Dva=enabled) or packaging it as a separate ebuild. Thanks!

Comment 1 Chris Mayo 2023-04-08 16:37:22 UTC

Although currently:
va: Scrambled image due to not passing DRM modifiers downstream
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/issues/1236

This bug looks like a duplicate of bug 835149.

Comment 2 Sam James archtester

2023-05-30 20:53:04 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 835149 ***