[yocto] [PATCH 1/1] meta-intel: make video acceleration choice dependent on LICENSE_FLAGS

[Tom Zanussi]

On Fri, 2012-09-14 at 22:39 +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 14 September 2012 22:25, Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi at intel.com> wrote:
> > From the gstreamer-vaapi README:
> >
> > "vaapidecoder currently relies on FFmpeg"
> 
> Ha, fair enough.
> 
> > Anyway, it would be nice if someone who had a better understanding of
> > this 'stack' could suggest better ways of doing things - at this point
> > it works for 3 different video acceleration implementations (emgd, pvr
> > and standard intel va) and I'm not looking forward to going through that
> > exercise again - for now I'll just be trying to fix the build problems
> > introduced by the new licensing restrictions.
> 
> I'm off to the London office on Monday, there's bound to be a few
> Cedar Trail netbooks hanging around there still.  I know they play
> h264 through vaapi (albeit fluendo-va) in MeeGo because that was the
> most frustrating/rewarding week I've had for along time, so I'll build
> an image with meta-intel and see what I can do.
> 

That would be great - any knowledge you could apply from what worked in
Meego would be welcome - feel free to rip the whole thing apart and
replace it if you have to...

> I'd also like to see anything MIX related in meta-intel die, that's an
> abomination now that gst-va actually works.
> 

The mixvideo stuff is actually what comes bundled with emgd so I'm not
sure we're any further ahead replacing it unless we can also replace
emgd...

Tom

> Ross