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wantilles

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From: Athens - Greece

Registered: 2007-03-29

Posts: 327

Request to build ffmpeg & mplayer with VDPAU support from now on

Why?

Simply because there is no reason not to:

Since 2 months ago, officially from nvidia:

- libvdpau is hardware-independent
- libvdpau is free and open-source

ie the package maintainer does not have to own and operate an nvidia VGA to build the packages.

And since 10+ months ago there is official such support in ffmpeg and mplayer.

Also it has become the universal defacto standard for hardware video acceleration decoding in GNU/Linux.

All you have to do is:

- include 'libvdpau>=0.3' in depends array
- include --enable-vdpau in configure array

skottish

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From: Here

Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: Request to build ffmpeg & mplayer with VDPAU support from now on

The forums aren't a good place for this; A lot of Arch developers don't come here. Filing a feature request through the bug tracker is a better way to go. With that being said:

http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/ … 14881.html

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: Request to build ffmpeg & mplayer with VDPAU support from now on

if you did that on the bugtracker surly i would added vdpau support for ffmpeg.

i said 2 days ago i'll handle x264 and ffmpeg update on arch-dev-public and nothing was suggest about enabling vdpau in ffmpeg.

Last edited by wonder (2010-01-10 17:21:09)

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wantilles

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From: Athens - Greece

Registered: 2007-03-29

Posts: 327

Re: Request to build ffmpeg & mplayer with VDPAU support from now on

I know this has to be filed as bug/feature request.

But I thought it best to discuss/inform the Arch community first.

PS: On arch-dev-public you are right. I have never subscribed myself there.

Last edited by wantilles (2010-01-10 18:24:04)

wonder

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Re: Request to build ffmpeg & mplayer with VDPAU support from now on

http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/package … diff&rev=0

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wantilles

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From: Athens - Greece

Registered: 2007-03-29

Posts: 327

Re: Request to build ffmpeg & mplayer with VDPAU support from now on

Yes I know.

I saw it on the online package database.

damjan

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Registered: 2006-05-30

Posts: 462

Re: Request to build ffmpeg & mplayer with VDPAU support from now on

- libvdpau is hardware-independent

how is it hardware-independent??

Gen2ly

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From: Sevierville, TN

Registered: 2009-03-06

Posts: 1,529

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Re: Request to build ffmpeg & mplayer with VDPAU support from now on

The forums aren't a good place for this

Really???  Seen plenty of devs in here.

@wonder

hey great, been looking for this for awhile myself.  thank you.

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Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: Request to build ffmpeg & mplayer with VDPAU support from now on

The forums aren't a good place for this

Really???  Seen plenty of devs in here.

But not necessarily the ones who care about a particular package and a forum thread gets lost while the bug tracker serves as constant reminder...

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skottish

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From: Here

Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: Request to build ffmpeg & mplayer with VDPAU support from now on

The forums aren't a good place for this

Really???  Seen plenty of devs in here.

@wonder

hey great, been looking for this for awhile myself.  thank you.

Check the dev page and see how many are not either regularly active or don't come in at all. I guess "a lot" is somewhat of an exaggeration seeing how few that there actually are.

surfed

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From: Vienna Austria

Registered: 2009-10-30

Posts: 86

Re: Request to build ffmpeg & mplayer with VDPAU support from now on

- libvdpau is hardware-independent

how is it hardware-independent??

The libvdpau standalone VDPAU library is distributed by NVIDIA independently of their proprietary Linux graphics driver in an effort to help the adoption of VDPAU by those outside of NVIDIA. This open source library package contains a wrapper library and a debugging library allowing other manufacturers to implement VDPAU support into their device drivers.

also look here:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n … &px=NzYzNg