On Thu, Aug 8, 2024 at 9:54 PM Thomas Frohwein <tfrohw...@fastmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 08, 2024 at 11:14:09AM +0300, Mihai Popescu wrote: > > Some people are really disappointed with VAAPI stuff and companion > > VDPAU that they say it is better to avoid them all together and stay > > on software side. > > Complaints say the implementation is fixed in hardware thus not > > flexible, and the drivers are really buggy and not maintained, so > > anything based on them is rather not qualitative or breaks badly. Some > > are obsolete already, since codecs change so often. > > > > I'm not a codecs expert, just reading what others say about this when > > dealing with various implementations. > > > > I just want to point out how sweeping and vague this is. Mihai, in my > opinion if you want to help with "VAAPI stuff", then at least do the > courtesy of listing your sources so that this can be examined if there > is a true concern. > > Otherwise, it is probably fair to say that "some people are really > disappointed" can be stated on virtually anything that people ever > discussed on the internet and it is therefore a worthless statement.
Please disregard what I said. Since I am not a codecs expert, I just read some others' opinions. And somehow they are codecs developers or advanced users doing streams encodings. If we continue like this, we will try to reach people who actually designed hardware. Can they be trusted? How much marketing is there and how much benefit? Look at OpenBSD. I am a simple user, keyboards presses and mouse clicks. Should I trust Windows from Microsoft? Should I trust Linux? Should I trust OpenBSD? How can I evaluate all internals? So I just rely on other people capabilities in programming, security, etc. No offence intended to any OS, please. I tried them all and I am still hooked to OpenBSD. But this is another thread. I will not list the sources, I use to read them and not saving the bookmarks. I'm out.
