TO DEVELOPERS - vdpau video accelerating support needed

[mael]

hi,

vdpau hardware accelerated videoplayback via the gpu is on most linux distributions already stable and supported by all major gpu vendors like amd, nvidia and intel.

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/VDPAU/

under the gentoo linux distribution the vaapi video acceleration is currently not working with amd radeon gpus, vdpau does perfectly!

for happy amd radeon owners : http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature/

for you nvidia folks : http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix/

i tested it with my amd radeon r7 240 and it works with vlc and libav smoothly without any problems! on my older dualcore box it has reduced cpu usage by vlc process ca. 70% while playing videos !!!

it would speed up video massivly! (example : fullscreen video playback in steam shop, reduce the possibility of tearing effects and many games would benefit from vdpau support too!)

i think vaapi is a dying api, so we need native vdpau support in wine! has this already been considered by the wine developers? is there already a timetable for this?

thanks for considering this cool enhancement for wine

[dimesio]

There was a discussion on wine-devel about a year ago. https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-d ... 03703.html

[shished]

DXVA2 supprt was added to wine-staging not so long time ago.
Launch winecfg with it and enable DXVA2 support in the 'staging' tab.