gstreamer-vaapi VA-API support to GStreamer
Copyright (C) 2010-2011 Splitted-Desktop Systems Copyright (C) 2011-2012 Intel Corporation Copyright (C) 2011 Collabora Ltd.
gstreamer-vaapi helper libraries and plugin elements are available under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1+
gstreamer-vaapi consists in a collection of VA-API based plugins for GStreamer and helper libraries.
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`vaapidecode' is used to decode MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, VC-1, WMV3 videos to video/x-vaapi-surfaces surfaces, depending on the underlying HW capabilities.
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`vaapiupload' is used to convert from video/x-raw-yuv pixels to video/x-vaapi-surface surfaces.
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`vaapidownload' is used to convert from video/x-vaapi-surface surfaces to video/x-raw-yuv pixels.
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`vaapipostproc' is used to postprocess video/x-vaapi-surface surfaces, for e.g. deinterlacing.
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`vaapisink' is used to display video/x-vaapi-surface surfaces to screen.
- VA-API support from 0.29 to 0.32
- MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264 and VC-1 ad-hoc decoders
- OpenGL rendering through VA/GLX or GLX texture-from-pixmap + FBO
- Support for major HW video decoding solutions on Linux (AMD, Intel, NVIDIA)
Software requirements
- libva-dev >= 1.0.3 (VA/GLX)
- libgstreamer0.10-dev >= 0.10.35.1 or with GstBaseSink::query()
- libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev >= 0.10.35
- libgstreamer-plugins-bad0.10-dev >= 0.10.22.1 or with GstVideoContext, GstSurfaceBuffer, codecparsers
If codecparsers-based decoders are not used:
- libavcodec-dev >= 0.6 or with <libavcodec/vaapi.h>
Hardware requirements
- AMD platforms with UVD2 (XvBA supported)
- Intel Eaglelake (G45)
- Intel Ironlake, Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge (HD Graphics)
- Intel Poulsbo (US15W)
- Intel Medfield or Cedar Trail
- NVIDIA platforms with PureVideo (VDPAU supported)
VA elements are automatically plugged into GStreamer pipelines. So, using playbin2 should work as is. However, here are a few alternate pipelines constructed manually.
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Play an H.264 video with an MP4 container in fullscreen mode $ gst-launch-0.10 -v filesrc location=/path/to/video.mp4 !
qtdemux ! vaapidecode ! vaapisink fullscreen=true -
Play a raw MPEG-2 interlaced stream $ gst-launch-0.10 -v filesrc location=/path/to/mpeg2.bits !
mpegvideoparse ! vaapidecode ! vaapipostproc ! vaapisink