Intel Broadwell "Gen8" Support Comes To VA-API

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel Broadwell "Gen8" Support Comes To VA-API

The Video Acceleration API (VA-API) library now has support for Intel's upcoming Broadwell (Gen8) graphics processors for GPU-based video encode/decode support...

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

[markg85]

The hardware accelerated encoding stuff is very cool and awesome, but how can we actually use it?
To my knowledge, ffmpeg doesn't support hardware accelerated encoding. Same for gstreamer (right? couldn't find it)...

But now we're getting VA-API accelerated encoding from Intel and VCE from AMD.. But now way to use it

[curaga]

Intel has a standalone encoder, while AMD only supports gstreamer. Both can be used if you bother, but adding support to actually used apps would be nice, yes.

[r1348]

Well AMD exposes VCE through OpenMAX, which is a standard API.
Gstreamer has an OpenMAX implementation http://freedesktop.org/wiki/GstOpenMAX/ that could probably be easily adapted to support AMD too, then hardware encoding would be exposed to any gstreamer application,