kwizart
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7 years ago As a "side thing" I would request if that would be possible to envision a full-hardware implementation of hw-decode/encode of certain codecs.
The reason is that currently this project is not allowed in Fedora because it might depends on software implementation of some potentially patented algorithm. Having a separate project with only fully hardware implementation would allow to have this in Fedora directly.
This would affect which devices are supported by the current libva-intel-driver, so worth to mention here. But I would fill a separate issue if this can be relevant.
With appdata files, it's possible to make the "software" application in GNOME or related desktop environment to know if the current hardware might benefit from a particular "driver" (here intel-vaapi-driver).
Please provide us with a way to extract such information (with pciids) for hardware relevant with this project.
Here is a sample about how to use this feature with nvidia and : https://github.com/rpmfusion/xorg-x11-drv-nvidia/blob/master/xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.metainfo.xml https://github.com/rpmfusion/xorg-x11-drv-nvidia/blob/master/xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.spec#L395 https://github.com/rpmfusion/xorg-x11-drv-nvidia/blob/master/parse-readme.py
FYI, I've added a separate RFE for the hybrid driver: https://github.com/01org/intel-hybrid-driver/issues/23