[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/2] add libyami.cpp for h264 decoding by libyami

[Ronald S. Bultje]

Hi,

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org>
wrote:

> On 14 Jan, Ronald S. Bultje wrote :
> > He specifically mentioned that yami supports (in addition to things
> ffmpeg
> > already does) hardware h264 encoding, hardware vp8 decoding/decoding,
> > hardware vp9 decoding and hardware jpeg encoding/decoding (all based on
> > vaapi as underlying api).
>
> Well, first, I really doubt that the Intel chips actually have VP8 and
> VP9 encoding in hardware and not in an software driver. Actually I'm
> quite sure they don't.
>
> Then, adding 3 encoders to the VAAPI code directly in FFmpeg seems way
> better than adding yet another library, that will be unmaintained, buggy
> and riddled with security issues.
>
> I don't understand this new fetichism of adding external dependencies to
> FFmpeg, because we can.


So, I do partially agree. I guess the sour reality is, though: is anyone on
this mailinglist interested in and capable of writing e.g. a native vaapi
jpeg decoder (or h264 encoder, or ...)? FFmpeg sometimes does suffer from
feature creep which doesn't help the overall project's health or code
quality (hi libmpcodecs!).

Ronald