Work done

With my gstreamer-vaapi patches, the vaapih264dec plugin can perform the hardware accelerated decoding of H264 MVC / SVC streams even if there is no hardware support for the stream’s profile. This can be done by enabling the base-only property of the element which will make vaapih264dec drop the non-base view frames. This should make all SVC streams at least playable, something that vaapih264dec, and most well-known open source media player applications, didn’t support so far.

During the second GSoC coding period I submitted my patches for bug 732265 and bug 732267. While the patch for h264parse in 732267 is still under review, my changes in 732265 got accepted and are now in the gstreamer-vaapi repo! Until the final deadline at August 29 I will be working on bug 732266 and respond to any new comments in bug 732267.

As days pass and GSoC’s first coding period deadline is closing by, I thought I should update my blog with my progress so far.

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