Bug#670921: [i965-va-driver] Wrong description (or built from wrong sources)

[Reinhard Tartler]

retitle 670921 missing h264 profiles on G45 hardware
tags 670921 pending
stop

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw at getslash.de> wrote:
>
> Package: i965-va-driver
> Version: 1.0.16-4
>
> Hi!
>
> The description tells us that H.264 should be somewhat
> supported. However, there's no such profile:

That's hardware dependent. In my sandy bridge laptop, this works just fine:

(sid-amd64)siretart at faui43f:/tmp $ vainfo
libva: VA-API version 0.32.0
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA-API version: 0.32 (libva 1.0.15)
vainfo: Driver version: Intel i965 driver - 1.0.17
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
      VAProfileMPEG2Simple            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileMPEG2Main              : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264Baseline           : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264Baseline           : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264Main               : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264Main               : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileVC1Simple              : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Main                : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Advanced            : VAEntrypointVLD

> It would be quite nice to have that additional acceleration
> profiles available, even though if you'd ship an older version
> of this VA driver. However, it be nice if you'd add two additional
> patches then, which could be found in the Ubuntu package
> (see http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/i/intel-vaapi-driver/intel-vaapi-driver_1.0.15-1ubuntu2.debian.tar.gz). These patches
> are already on the GIT repo's master branch, but missing on
> the (older) g45-h264 branch. The second one fixes an actual
> assertion, while the first "only" adds the infrastructure used
> by the second.

We will update to upstream version 1.1 soon. From your description, I
understand that this will address all of your comments.

--
regards,
    Reinhard