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update libvdpau to add VP9 decoding support #74211

Closed felschr closed 4 years ago

felschr commented 4 years ago

Recently libvdpau 1.3 with support for VP9 decoding has been released: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/vdpau/libvdpau/-/releases

This could present a very interesting improvement for video streaming performance in general and might be especially useful for Google Stadia as it relies on quick video decoding to be playable. Though I don't even know if chromium's useVaapi flag currently works with an NVIDIA GPU.

vdpauinfo was also updated to support the changes but there hasn't been an official release yet: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/vdpau/vdpauinfo/commits/master

The nvidiaBeta drivers might be required to test VP9 support: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-440.26-Linux-Driver

felschr commented 4 years ago

vdpauinfo has now also seen a new release with support for libvdpau 1.3: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/vdpau/vdpauinfo/-/releases

vcunat commented 4 years ago

The PR is in master now.