FFmpeg 3.1 Is Primed With New Features: Includes H.264/HEVC VA-API Encoding

[phoronix]

Phoronix: FFmpeg 3.1 Is Primed With New Features: Includes H.264/HEVC VA-API Encoding

FFmpeg 3.1.0 is now available with the latest features for this widely-used open-source multimedia library...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FFmpeg-3.1-Features

[grigi]

Is the OpenMax encoder that is part of the Radeon OS stack any use at all? I have not been able to use it.

[Gusar]

Is the OpenMax encoder that is part of the Radeon OS stack any use at all? I have not been able to use it.

In theory it's usable with gstreamer, with the gst-omx plugin to be exact.

Beyond that, there's VAAPI encoding patches on the mesa mailing list, when those land you'll be able to use the radeon encoder with ffmpeg.

[zman0900]

Anyone know what hardware will work with this va-api encoding? Just Intel?

[Pontostroy]

Is the OpenMax encoder that is part of the Radeon OS stack any use at all? I have not been able to use it.

I tried, with some changes it almost works, no errors from ffmpeg but result file is empty.

[Pontostroy]

Anyone know what hardware will work with this va-api encoding? Just Intel?

looks like now only intel works, i tried mesa+radeon vaapi encoding patches with ffmptg and no luck. with gstreamer radeon vaapi encoding works fine .

[Azrael5]

Is it possible to implement ffmpeg into the browser and eventually how?

[legume]

omx works OK for me with gstreamer, though it's a pain to set up, I guess distros should do better than me on LFS though :-)
You get fixed qp=28 and very sparse I frames, no b frames, one ref, no cabac (though code hack can turn it on and it works).

omx with ffmpeg doesn't (or didn't last time I tried) work as there seems to be no nv12 handling - when I tried it just spun forever querying mesa but not handling "the answer" being nv12.

vaapi - there are patches for mesa about, but they are still being reviewed/changed.

Testing the early patches it is possible to encode with gstreamer and ffmpeg (which needs extra patches) - there are still issues though. I expect when mesa gets the final code these can be sorted.

[starshipeleven]

Is it possible to implement ffmpeg into the browser and eventually how?

I think there is a chromium-ffmpeg package in ubuntu repos, but it seems it is already statically-linked in chromium https://codereview.chromium.org/1141703002/

Firefox uses ffmpeg since version 43 http://news.softpedia.com/news/firef...x-496213.shtml

If that works or not... I don't know.

[starshipeleven]

I tried, with some changes it almost works, no errors from ffmpeg but result file is empty.

A weird definition of "almost".