These patches add VA API support to FFmpeg and MPlayer. HW video decode capabilities depend on the actual VA API implementation. Besides, from an MPlayer perspective, only full-offload (VLD) of the video is supported for the following codecs: MPEG-2 MPEG-4 ASP (DivX) MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) http://www.splitted-desktop.com/~gbeauchesne/mplayer-vaapi/ http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/vaapi
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=xorg_vaapi_mplayer&am... The Video Acceleration API has gone through several revisions this year and last year, but it has yet to see any wide adoption. The libVa library provides the VA-API implementation and is put out under an open-source MIT license while the only driver implementing VA-API support is the Poulsbo video driver. The Intel Poulsbo graphics driver is closed-source while their DRM kernel driver is open-source. Poulsbo is the code-name for Intel's MID (Mobile Internet Device) chipset that is used in conjunction with the Silverthorne Atom processors. However, the Poulsbo chipset is used on very few netbooks and the MIDs with these chipsets are not very common (at least not in the US). One system that does use this chipset is the Dell Inspiron Mini 12.