[Arm-netbook] Sorry state of Linux hardware video decoder libraries / lack of single API

[Vladimir Pantelic]

lkcl luke wrote:

>   .... pretty much all of which have plugin support, pretty much all of
> which boil down to ffmpeg.  so it's not as bad as it looks - just
> fucking irritating that cedarx is proprietary.

although libav/FFmpeg is mainly a native codec and container library
it does have a few wrappers to external codecs - again most of them
native CPU libs.

One could of course try to write a wrapper for cedarx in libav/FFmpeg,
but there could be issues with memory (video buffer handling) if
one wants to avoid a memcpy to and from the codec.