[FFmpeg-user] enable the vaapi hardware acceleration decoding with ffmpeg and libx264

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Vinxxe <vinxxe <at> gmail.com> writes:

> For now I've successfully managed to use a piece of 
> code that play a h264 encoded movie using the vaapi 
> hw acceleration. The problem is that this code put 
> the decoded frame directly to the hw video surface 
> but I want to put the decoded frame to the pixel 
> buffer object.

(Some people claim that this will cost all performance 
gain that you are searching for.)

There certainly is a va-api function to read the decoded 
image back from the GPU into main memory, you will have 
to implement that, I assume.

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> ffmpeg version 0.10.2

(Unrelated:)
This is over a year old, consider updating to current git head.

Carl Eugen