FFmpeg 2.8 Brings Intel QSV Encoding/Decoding, HEVC Hardware Acceleration

[phoronix]

Phoronix: FFmpeg 2.8 Brings Intel QSV Encoding/Decoding, HEVC Hardware Acceleration

FFmpeg 2.8 is now available as the latest major update to this important open-source multimedia project. This is also the first major release since the longtime FFmpeg leader resigned this summer...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FFmpeg-2.8-Released

[pdffs]

As with all previous announcements of QSV support in FFmpeg, it should be noted that this requires compiling FFmpeg against the proprietary libmfx from the Intel Media SDK, under license from Intel.

[Gusar]

Funny how you're pointing Michael Niedermayer's resignation so much. Because, you know who coordinated and ultimately made this release? Michael Niedermayer

In practice, his resignation resulted in Hendrik Leppkes now doing merges from libav instead of him. But that's it. Michael is still committing bugfixes, posting patches to the mailing list and, apparently, doing release management.

What's more interesting is that the next version will increase all library sonames because of incompatible changes, mostly removal of deprecated stuff.

[wargames]

FFMPEG is great but its API documentation sucks.

[TheBlackCat]

Funny how you're pointing Michael Niedermayer's resignation so much. Because, you know who coordinated and ultimately made this release? Michael Niedermayer

In practice, his resignation resulted in Hendrik Leppkes now doing merges from libav instead of him. But that's it. Michael is still committing bugfixes, posting patches to the mailing list and, apparently, doing release management.

So in other words he is still participating, but not longer has decision-making power? Wasn't his decision-making the reason the libav folks left?

[Gusar]

So in other words he is still participating, but not longer has decision-making power?

Pretty much, yeah, Though I'd say release management does imply some form of decision-making - what will be in the release and what will be postponed to the next one, and such.

Wasn't his decision-making the reason the libav folks left?

Yep. They didn't like how Michael simply did what he wanted, even stuff others objected to.

[TheBlackCat]

Pretty much, yeah, Though I'd say release management does imply some form of decision-making - what will be in the release and what will be postponed to the next one, and such.

Depends. A lot of release managers just handle the packaging, with the actual decision to make a release handled elsewhere. But whatever the case, he can't make any decisions about features, API, or anything else regarding the design of ffmpeg.

[cRaZy-bisCuiT]

Did anyone got QSV woking without patching the kernel as well as i915? :/