On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 09:50:47PM -0500, Bryan Steele wrote: Hello Bryan,
> It's certainly something that would be nice to have, and has been > attempted a few times. Someone just needs to pick up the work that has > been started by others. > > The original ports discussions: > > https://marc.info/?t=157626475700001&r=1&w=2 > https://marc.info/?t=157587390400001&r=1&w=2 > > ..when it moved to tech@ to attempt xenocara integration: > > https://marc.info/?t=157676538600003&r=1&w=2 Thanks for the pointers! I was surprised that just a few weeks ago you were suggesting libva might go into ports ;) Being more serious, I wonder if we can suggest a concrete path to Eugene should he be able and willing to put more time into this? I know that he was looking into upstreaming OpenBSD relevant patches, which is a positive chunk of work to be doing in parallel. However, it's not totally clear to me what he might need to do to get libva and its associated parts (libva-intel-media-driver etc) into xenocara and ports (as appropriate). He may well be much more au fait with these things than I am, but equally, he might not mind more detailed input from people who know more than me! Now that I understand how to use ffmpeg's hardware acceleration better (in particular when the hardware can do both decoding and encoding), I realise I undersold the effect of Eugene's work: on my 5 year old integrated "GPU" OpenBSD desktop, I'm seeing some video tasks running 50x faster than before! I imagine the folks porting OBS to OpenBSD would probably love to take advantage of this :) Laurie
