[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Try to make new VDPAU usable by adding context to callback.

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 09:23:53PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 08:17:11PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > Using VDPAU correctly means checking for preemption
> > and possibly regenerating the context all the time.
> > With the current API there is no context or other
> > user-defined pointer and thus this in not possible
> > unless using some hack like global variables.
> > This introduces a new decode function that gets
> > both the AVCodecContext and AVFrame in addition,
> > in both the user can store additional opaque data.
> > Unfortunately the HWAccel API has no way of providing
> > API/ABI compatibility, so a currently disallowed
> > state (render pointer being NULL) is used to extend it.
> > An alternative would be to add the new function pointer
> > to the AVCodecContext.
> > ---
> >  libavcodec/vdpau.c      | 13 +++++++++++++
> >  libavcodec/vdpau.h      | 12 ++++++++++++
> >  libavcodec/vdpau_h264.c |  4 ++++
> >  3 files changed, 29 insertions(+)
> 
> should be ok but iam no VDPAU user or developer

I'll give it some time, at least until it has been tested some more from
MPlayer side.