On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 09:13:51PM +0200, Luca De Pandis wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 02:11:34PM -0400, Bryan Steele wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 07:35:47PM +0200, Luca De Pandis wrote:
> > > Hi everyone,
> > > I'm Luca De Pandis and I'm an OpenBSD user since March.
> > > 
> > > I'd like to contribute to the project since I'm using it everyday, so I
> > > decided to work on porting the VAAPI stack on OpenBSD.
> > > 
> > > Before submitting I checked with portcheck and make
> > > ports-lib-depends-check for errors or things I could improve to make the
> > > ports as compliant as possible. Still, as they are my first attempt to
> > > port something I'd like to receive your feedbacks about them.
> > > 
> > > Since I need for VAAPI to get hw acceleration on mpv I wouldn't mind to
> > > step up as a maintainer for these ports.
> > > 
> > > Also, I wrote some patches, but I'm not as proficient in C as I would. So
> > > I'm counting on your feedbacks if there are some things I could do
> > > better in that regard as well.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Best regards,
> > > Luca De Pandis
> > 
> > Hi Luca,
> > 
> > This has come up before last year [0], and the conclusion was that this
> > needed to be a part of xenocara [1] as Mesa needs to be compiled with
> > '--enable-va' to have working r600/radeonsi gallium drivers [2].
> > 
> > The original work was done by Brad DeMorrow and Jonathan Gray had
> > picked it up after that, not sure what the status is now. I had it
> > working on my Radeon HD 7450 along with a modified ffmpeg port with
> > Brad's original ports and recompiled Mesa.
> > 
> > Having support for video encode/decode offloading would be nice,
> > especially on lower power CPUs.
> > 
> > -Bryan.
> > 
> > [0] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=157626463822587&w=2
> > [1] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=157676527322944&w=2
> > [2] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=157638698722892&w=2
> Hi Bryan,
> no problem at all.
> 
> I just submitted them because I need hwdec on my Intel hardware to
> reduce frame dropping. If they are going to be part of base, that's even
> better!
> 
> Right now I'm focusing on porting the newest intel-media-driver for >=
> Broadwell CPUs (in this archive I only ported the old
> intel-vaapi-driver).
> 
> If I can be of any help about the integration of VAAPI, just let me
> know.  :-)
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Luca De Pandis

>From a ports perspective quick look, each one of those ports had a
release. So, for future submissions you should probably use MASTER_SITES
instead of the on-the-fly tag generation thingy.

To go with that, EXTRACT_SUFX = .tar.bz2.

Thanks!

-- 

Tracey Emery

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