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

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Mi, Jan 04, 2012 at 12:01:36 (CET), Timo Aaltonen wrote:

> Mplayer seems to not have been built with --enable-vaapi.

The mplayer package in Ubuntu does not have vaapi support. There is a
fork callled 'mplayer-vaapi', however this work has been rejected by
both mplayer and mplayer2 upstream's because of poor implementation. It
would be great if somone would re-implement that properly so that it can
be merged upstream.

Packaging the vaapi enabled mplayer fork is tracked here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/517467

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Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4

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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:
  Fix Released
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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