[Bug 518546] New: Review Request: libva - VAAPI video playback acceleration

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Summary: Review Request: libva - VAAPI video playback acceleration

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=518546

           Summary: Review Request: libva - VAAPI video playback
                    acceleration
           Product: Fedora
           Version: rawhide
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: medium
          Priority: medium
         Component: Package Review
        AssignedTo: nobody at fedoraproject.org
        ReportedBy: awilliam at redhat.com
         QAContact: extras-qa at fedoraproject.org
                CC: notting at redhat.com, fedora-package-review at redhat.com
   Estimated Hours: 0.0
    Classification: Fedora
    Target Release: ---


Spec URL: http://www.happyassassin.net/extras/libva.spec
SRPM URL:
http://www.happyassassin.net/extras/libva-0.30.4.1.sds3-1.aw_fc12.src.rpm
Description: libva contains a library and tools relating to the VAAPI video
playback acceleration specification. At present the only really working
implementations of VAAPI support on the video driver side are in two
proprietary drivers (VIA's own driver for its Chrome chipsets, and the infamous
Intel Poulsbo driver), but there's a borderline-functional implementation of
MPEG-2 acceleration for mainline Intel chipsets in the package, and more free
implementations are definitely planned for the future, so this isn't like
VDPAU, and the Packaging Committee meeting which discussed VDPAU was firmly in
favour of allowing libva in.

This package is the patched version of libva maintained by Gwenole Beauchesne
of Splitted Desktop Systems, at
http://www.splitted-desktop.com/~gbeauchesne/libva/ . Upstream libva is slated
to include his changes from version 0.50 onwards. Some already seem to be
merged, but not all, and building current upstream git doesn't give a libva
that works with Poulsbo, so I'd prefer to go with Gwenole's patched version for
now. I've got a spec on file for the upstream version too, so it'll be easy to
switch when appropriate. Upstream libva lives at
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/vaapi , just for reference.

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