[Bug 595661] Re: please support h264 hardware acceleration on certain intel video cards

[Adam Niedling]

Daniël: Bug #531692 is not a duplicate of this bug. That one is about
video acceleration support for the video players that use gstreamer (eg
Totem, not VLC) and this one is about support for the Intel video card
driver.

Btw h264 decoding is still not supported with Intel 4500MHD in Ubuntu
11.10:

$ vainfo 
libva: libva 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
vainfo: Driver version: i965 Driver 0.1
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
      VAProfileMPEG2Simple            :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileMPEG2Main              :	VAEntrypointVLD

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Title:
  please support h264 hardware acceleration on certain intel video cards

Status in “libdrm” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “libva” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “mplayer” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Ubuntu should support h264 and mpeg2 hardware decoding through the use
  of vaapi on Intel cards.

  Here is some Intel documentation on how to achieve this, including the patches needed:
  http://intellinuxgraphics.org/h264.html

  The libva stack should be updated from debian to support the G45 card series to 1.0.8 or higher
  Currently being tracked in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libva/+bug/721978

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