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authorgb <gb@5584edef-b1fe-4b99-b61b-dd2bab72e969>2010-05-04 08:59:27 +0000
committerGwenole Beauchesne <gbeauchesne@splitted-desktop.com>2010-09-20 12:55:44 +0200
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Improve documentation for release.
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@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ Overview
gstreamer-vaapi consists in a collection of VA-API based plugins for
GStreamer and helper libraries.
+ * `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.
+
* `vaapiconvert' is used to convert from video/x-raw-yuv pixels to
video/x-vaapi-surface surfaces.
@@ -33,11 +37,22 @@ Features
* VA-API support from 0.29 to 0.31
* OpenGL rendering through VA/GLX or GLX texture-from-pixmap + FBO
+ * Support for major HW video decoding solutions on Linux (AMD, Intel, NVIDIA)
Requirements
------------
-libgstreamer0.10-dev >= 0.10.0
-libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev >= 0.10.0
-libva-dev >= 0.31.0-1+sds9 (VA/GLX)
+Software requirements
+
+ * libgstreamer0.10-dev >= 0.10.0
+ * libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev >= 0.10.0
+ * libva-dev >= 0.31.0-1+sds9 (VA/GLX)
+
+Hardware requirements
+
+ * AMD platforms with UVD2 (XvBA supported)
+ * Intel Poulsbo (US15W)
+ * Intel Eaglelake (G45)
+ * Intel Ironlake (HD Graphics)
+ * NVIDIA platforms with PureVideo (VDPAU supported)