VA-API Video Decoding Support For Wayland

[phoronix]

Phoronix: VA-API Video Decoding Support For Wayland

One of the many items that Intel developers have been working on for the rapid ascent of Wayland is GPU video decoding support...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTA1Njg

[AnonymousCoward]

Just trying to hijack the thread: I just thought I might try out vaapi under Ubuntu 11.10 with Xorg edgers on a Lenovo X220 (sandy bridge). So vlc -v --ffmpeg-hw seems to work for simple movies, but my high quality films fail with only one garbled frame every 10 seconds or so:

[0x286dcf0] dts decoder: DTS channels:6 samplerate:48000 bitrate:768000
libva: VA-API version 0.32.0
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns 0
[0x15fc230] avcodec decoder: Using VA API version 0.32 for hardware decoding.
QPixmap::handle(): Pixmap is not an X11 class pixmap
[0x7f482c000980] signals interface warning: signal 17 overridden (0x7f482880f6c0)
[0x7f482c000980] signals interface warning:  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4(?)[(nil)]
[0x7f482c0548e0] main video output warning: vlc_object_find_name(postproc) is not safe!
[0x160f9f0] main audio output warning: PTS is out of range (-30050), dropping buffer
Stream with high frequencies VQ coding
[0x7f482c0548e0] main video output warning: late picture skipped (21445 > -622)
[0x7f482c0548e0] main video output warning: late picture skipped (251609 > -577)

I suppose it has something todo with "Stream with high frequencies VQ coding".

Shouldn't they rather focus on getting their stuff fixed on X before moving to Wayland?

PS:

vainfo -h 
libva: VA-API version 0.32.0
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA-API version: 0.32 (libva 1.0.15)
vainfo: Driver version: i965 Driver 0.1
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
      VAProfileMPEG2Simple            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileMPEG2Main              : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264Baseline           : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264Main               : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Simple              : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Main                : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Advanced            : VAEntrypointVLD

[cl333r]

Word Nazi report: VDPAU stands for "Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix", you skipped "Presentation" in your article.

[Ansla]

Just trying to hijack the thread

That's not very nice of you. But since nobody is interested in the actual topic here goes:

I suppose it has something todo with "Stream with high frequencies VQ coding".

That's from the audio codec, so it probably has nothing to do with it.
But the following are surely related:

[0x7f482c0548e0] main video output warning: late picture skipped (21445 > -622)
[0x7f482c0548e0] main video output warning: late picture skipped (251609 > -577)

Shouldn't they rather focus on getting their stuff fixed on X before moving to Wayland?

Unless their hardware actually can't handle such high bit-rates? Usually hardware decoders only support lower levels of quality. You should search the Intel site for a document with the limitations of your exact CPU.