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@@ -20,16 +20,17 @@ Overview gstreamer-vaapi consists in a collection of VA-API based plugins for GStreamer and helper libraries. - * `vaapidecode' is used to decode JPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4:2, H.264 AVC, - H.264 MVC, VP8, VC-1, WMV3, HEVC videos to VA surfaces, depending - on the underlying hardware capabilities. This plugin is also able - to implicitly download the decoded surface to raw YUV buffers. - - * `vaapiencode_<CODEC>' is used to encode into MPEG-2, H.264 AVC, - H.264 MVC, JPEG, VP8, HEVC videos, depending on the actual value - of <CODEC> (mpeg2, h264, etc.). By default, raw format bitstreams - are generated, so the result may be piped to a muxer. - e.g. qtmux for MP4 containers. + * `vaapi<CODEC>dec' is used to decode JPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4:2, H.264 + AVC, H.264 MVC, VP8, VC-1, WMV3, HEVC videos to VA surfaces, + depending on the actual value of <CODEC> and the underlying + hardware capabilities. This plugin is also able to implicitly + download the decoded surface to raw YUV buffers. + + * `vaapi<CODEC>enc' is used to encode into MPEG-2, H.264 AVC, H.264 + MVC, JPEG, VP8, HEVC videos, depending on the actual value of + <CODEC> (mpeg2, h264, etc.) and the hardware capabilities. By + default, raw format bitstreams are generated, so the result may be + piped to a muxer, e.g. qtmux for MP4 containers. * `vaapipostproc' is used to filter VA surfaces, for e.g. scaling, deinterlacing (bob, motion-adaptive, motion-compensated), noise @@ -45,18 +46,20 @@ Features -------- * VA-API support from 0.29 to 0.38 - * JPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264 AVC, H.264 MVC, VP8, VC-1, HEVC and VP9 ad-hoc decoders + * JPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264 AVC, H.264 MVC, VP8, VC-1, HEVC and + VP9 ad-hoc decoders * MPEG-2, H.264 AVC,H.264 MVC, JPEG, VP8 and HEVC ad-hoc encoders * OpenGL rendering through VA/GLX or GLX texture-from-pixmap + FBO * Support for EGL backend * Support for the Wayland display server * Support for headless decode pipelines with VA/DRM - * Support for major HW video decoding solutions on Linux (AMD, Intel, NVIDIA) + * Support for major HW video decoding solutions on Linux (AMD, + Intel, NVIDIA) * Support for HW video encoding on Intel HD Graphics hardware * Support for VA Video Processing APIs (VA/VPP) - Scaling and color conversion - - Image enhancement filters: Sharpening, Noise Reductio, Color Balance, - Skin-Tone-Enhancement + - Image enhancement filters: Sharpening, Noise Reductio, Color + Balance, Skin-Tone-Enhancement - Advanced deinterlacing: Motion-Adaptive, Motion-Compensated @@ -65,11 +68,10 @@ Requirements Software requirements - * GStreamer 1.4.x (up to including GStreamer 1.6): - libglib2.0-dev (>= 2.32) - libgstreamer1.0-dev (>= 1.4.0) - libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev (>= 1.4.0) - libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-dev (>= 1.4.0) + * GStreamer 1.9.x: + libgstreamer1.0-dev (>= 1.9.x) + libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev (>= 1.9.x) + libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-dev (>= 1.9.0) * Renderers: DRM: libva-dev (>= 1.1.0), libdrm-dev, libudev-dev @@ -79,13 +81,13 @@ Software requirements Hardware requirements - * AMD platforms with UVD2 (XvBA supported) * Intel Eaglelake (G45) - * Intel Ironlake, Sandybridge, Ivybridge, Haswell and Broadwell (HD Graphics) + * Intel Ironlake, Sandybridge, Ivybridge, Haswell, Broadwell, + Skylake, etc. (HD Graphics) * Intel BayTrail, Braswell * Intel Poulsbo (US15W) * Intel Medfield or Cedar Trail - * NVIDIA platforms with PureVideo (VDPAU supported) + * Hardware supported by Mesa VA gallium state-tracker Usage @@ -98,11 +100,11 @@ Usage * Play an H.264 video with an MP4 container in fullscreen mode $ gst-launch-1.0 -v filesrc location=/path/to/video.mp4 ! \ - qtdemux ! vaapidecode ! vaapisink fullscreen=true + qtdemux ! vaapidecodebin ! vaapisink fullscreen=true * Play a raw MPEG-2 interlaced stream $ gst-launch-1.0 -v filesrc location=/path/to/mpeg2.bits ! \ - mpegvideoparse ! vaapidecode ! vaapipostproc ! vaapisink + mpegvideoparse ! vaapimpeg2dec ! vaapipostproc ! vaapisink * Convert from one pixel format to another, while also downscaling $ gst-launch-1.0 -v filesrc location=/path/to/raw_video.yuv ! \ @@ -112,7 +114,7 @@ Usage * Encode a 1080p stream in raw I420 format into H.264 $ gst-launch-1.0 -v filesrc location=/path/to/raw_video.yuv ! \ videoparse format=i420 width=1920 height=1080 framerate=30/1 ! \ - vaapiencode_h264 rate-control=cbr tune=high-compression ! \ + vaapih264enc rate-control=cbr tune=high-compression ! \ qtmux ! filesink location=/path/to/encoded_video.mp4 @@ -126,7 +128,7 @@ Sources <http://www.freedesktop.org/software/vaapi/releases/gstreamer-vaapi/> Git repository for work-in-progress changes is available at: - <https://github.com/01org/gstreamer-vaapi> + <https://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer-vaapi> Reporting Bugs |