On Oct 29, 2017 9:11 AM, "Bruce Dubbs" <[email protected]> wrote:

Armin K. wrote:

> On 29.10.2017 2:24, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>
>> Armin K. wrote:
>>
>>> On 29.10.2017 1:28, via blfs-book wrote:
>>>
>>>> Author: bdubbs
>>>> Date: Sat Oct 28 16:28:23 2017
>>>> New Revision: 19406
>>>>
>>>> Log:
>>>> Update to intel-vaapi-driver and libva 2.0.0,
>>>> but gstreamer-vaapi-1.12.3 is broken until the next
>>>> gstreamer release.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I'm pretty sure this was a good reason NOT to update, no?
>>>
>>
>> Can always revert if gstreamer does not do a release.  gstreamer-vaapi
>> is an end-program and optimization at that.  Nothing depends on it and
>> all the other packages that use libva are ok.
>>
>
You could argue that anything that uses gstreamer for playing video uses
> gst-vaapi. It adds hardware accelerated paths for several codecs on video
> hardware that supports it.
>
> Same way, neither gst-plugins-ugly nor gst-libav have anything dependent
> on them, but you can't use some apps relying on gstreamer for playing
> certain media if you don't have them installed.
>
> And since libva 2.0.0 is a big bump, gst-vaapi won't support it until next
> minor version (1.14), and there's no sight of that one yet.
>

I see your point.  I'll think about reverting.

Historically, it looks like gst* makes a release about every two months and
it's been six weeks since the last one.

I did check every package that mentions libva and gstreamer-vaapi was the
only one that complained.


I don't understand the problem. They all built fine for me.
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