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Video decoding in GStreamer with Vulkan Video extension (part 2)
Its has been a while since I reported my tinkering with the Vulkan Video provisional extension. Now the specification will have its final release soon_ish_, and also there has been more engagement within the open source communities, such as the work-in-progress FFmpeg implementation by Lynne (please, please, read that post), and the also work-in-progress Mesa 3D drivers both for AMD and Intel by Dave Airlie! Along with the well known NVIDIA beta drivers for Vulkan.
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GstVA H.264 encoder, compositor and JPEG decoder
There are, right now, three new GstVA elements merged in
main
:vah264enc
,vacompositor
andvajpegdec
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From gst-build to local-projects
Two years ago I wrote a blog post about using gst-build inside of WebKit SDK flatpak. Well, all that has changed. That’s the true upstream spirit.
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Digging further into Flatpak with NVIDIA
As you may know the development environment used by WebKitGTK and WPE is based on Flatpak. I feel hacking software within Flatpak like teleoperating a rover in Mars, since I have to go through Flatpak commands to execute the commands I want to execute. The learning curve is steeper in exchange of a common development environment.