Bug#670921: (no subject)

[Roland Hieber]

Hmm. After installing 1.0.20-1 from experimental, I still don't see the
H.264 profiles in vainfo:

$ vainfo
libva info: VA-API version 0.33.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_33
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA-API version: 0.33 (libva 1.0.15)
vainfo: Driver version: Intel i965 driver - 1.0.20
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
      VAProfileMPEG2Simple            :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileMPEG2Main              :	VAEntrypointVLD

$ apt-cache policy i965-va-driver
i965-va-driver:
  Installed: 1.0.20-1
  Candidate: 1.0.20-1
  Version table:
 *** 1.0.20-1 0
          1 http://debian.tu-bs.de/debian/ experimental/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.0.17-1 0
        500 http://debian.tu-bs.de/debian/ wheezy/main amd64 Packages
          1 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages

However, as soon as I install the version from the Git branch g45-h264,
H.264 is supported:

$ git rev-parse HEAD
2aef79c4e83eb00df94d10558e7ce42d720e8cb7

$ git rev-parse g45-h264
2aef79c4e83eb00df94d10558e7ce42d720e8cb7

$ make && sudo make install
[…]

$ vainfo
libva info: VA-API version 0.33.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_33
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA-API version: 0.33 (libva 1.0.15)
vainfo: Driver version: Intel i965 driver - 1.0.19.pre1
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
      VAProfileMPEG2Simple            :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileMPEG2Main              :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264Baseline           :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264Main               :	VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264High               :	VAEntrypointVLD

If this functionality is hardware dependant, how can I make sure the
Debian package includes support for my hardware (and what does the Deb
package need to also support my hardware)?
-- 
Roland Hieber
Stratum 0 e.V., Braunschweig, Germany, Earth
https://stratum0.org/