[Arm-netbook] [EOMA68] A20 G2D / VAAPI / VDPAU video acceleration in web browsers

[Russell Hyer]

Hi Luke,

So, if I've understood this post correctly, video playback on vlc
would perhaps be within the bounds of what the A20 hardware / software
could do?

Russell
Just a Fourier transform away from creating a computer game...

On 09/08/2016, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:
> .... ain't gonna work with the current code-base of either xulrunner
> (firefox and ice* types) or webkit (chrome, midori, qupzilla).  darn.
>
> the reason for webkit is: although gstreamer supports vdpau and vaapi,
> and even can be activated to do hardware-accelerated decode, webkit
> (at least as best i can find) the gtk+ variant then targets *opengl*
> as the output rendering engine, rather than asks VAAPI / VDPAU to
> handle it directly on the webkit engine's behalf.
>
> what that means is: with software-rendering OpenGL of the decoded
> pixels it's simply too much for the A20 to handle.
>
> amazingly i have actually seen icecat do about 2 or 3 fps video
> decoding in software, i really don't know how it managed, and i
> haven't really been able to replicate it.
>
> anyway if people are expecting videos to be played in web browsers,
> it's gonna take some work.  for now it's possible to download them
> (youtube-dl or other methods) and then use a video player.
>
> l.
>
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