While working on the graphics card detection, I am not sure what to do with the vdpau and VA-API things.
These get more and more commonly used, now even Firefox seems to support that kind of hardware video acceleration (link in German, link).
Another example is VLC, an old user of VA-API, and now supports even VDPAU out of the box, as it is more effective than VA-API.
There are other applications that use VA-API, but not VDPAU yet, and vice versa, and in the Linux world there exist wrapper/converter-drivers in both directions.
Regarding such drivers on FreeBSD, my searches were unsuccessful.
If possible, I would love to automatically install the complement driver for the cards' generic driver, so that all applications can use hardware acceleration, no matter which of both interfaces they use.
Does anybody know of or even have experience with wrapper drivers VA-API->VDPAU and vice versa on FreeBSD?
These get more and more commonly used, now even Firefox seems to support that kind of hardware video acceleration (link in German, link).
Another example is VLC, an old user of VA-API, and now supports even VDPAU out of the box, as it is more effective than VA-API.
There are other applications that use VA-API, but not VDPAU yet, and vice versa, and in the Linux world there exist wrapper/converter-drivers in both directions.
Regarding such drivers on FreeBSD, my searches were unsuccessful.
If possible, I would love to automatically install the complement driver for the cards' generic driver, so that all applications can use hardware acceleration, no matter which of both interfaces they use.
Does anybody know of or even have experience with wrapper drivers VA-API->VDPAU and vice versa on FreeBSD?