GStreamer VA-API 0.7.0
GStreamer VA-API 0.7.0 is here! As is usually said, “grab it while it is fresh”, specially the distributions.In a previous blog post we explained in detail what is GStreamer VA-API. Also, last October, we talked about it in the GStreamer Conference 2015; you can glance the slides here.
This release includes three major changes:
- Added support for VP9 decoding.
- Improved a lot the HEVC decoder.
- Some fixes in the integration with OpenGL platforms.
Please note that VP9 decoding is only supported from Braswell and Skylake onwards, using the Intel’s hybrid driver for libva, which is a subset of a VA-API backend, and it can be plugged to Intel’s VA-API backend (adding the –hybrid-codec parameter to the intel-driver’s configure script).
HEVC (a.k.a. H265) decoding is more stable and has a better performance. And, remember, it is only available in Skylake and Cherry View chipsets).
Now, OpenGL3 is handled correctly through GstGLTextureUploadMeta.
But there are a lot of fixes more, improvements and enhancements, such as better handling of H264 corrupted streams, better GstContext handling, the enabling of vaapidecodebin (finally!), etc.
Here’s the git’s short log summary since the last 0.6.0 release.
5 Gwenole Beauchesne
1 Jan Schmidt
2 Lim Siew Hoon
1 Mark Nauwelaerts
1 Olivier Crete
61 Sreerenj Balachandran
72 Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal