VA-API Video Acceleration Now Enabled For Nouveau Gallium3D

[phoronix]

Phoronix: VA-API Video Acceleration Now Enabled For Nouveau Gallium3D

For the past few months a Samsung developer has been working on VA-API support for Nouveau. After a few patch revisions, that work is finally hitting mainline Mesa...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nouveau-NVC0-Git-VA

[oibaf]

It's unfortunate that Debian / Ubuntu still doesn't enable vaapi in mesa: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...a/+bug/1481832

[zanny]

Wait, Samsung is contributing hardware video decoding support to Nouveau? What?

[boombatower]

vaapi is enabled in openSUSE Tumbleweed (with the patch so no env var needed).

Setting the environment variable is a hack...the real fix is to make it work like all the other drivers and provide hardlinks like libva is looking for: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archive...er/103585.html.

[DanL]

Wait, Samsung is contributing hardware video decoding support to Nouveau? What?

Read the previous stories linked in the article.

[Kano]

I hope that all gallium VAAPI drivers are well tested because some apps prefer VAAPI over VDPAU.