I would great to have hardware acceleration for Raspberry Pi. But Pi's video hardware drivers are not open source. They are some propriety binary bits. Even theoretically, I don't see if those binary bits can be used within OpenBSD system.
On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 2:20 AM Mihai Popescu <mih...@gmail.com> wrote: > > With your email now however the original question remains: Does OpenBSD > actually support hardware accelerated video decoding today? > > General answer: NO. > > A more detailed answer is like this: there is a talk on the list about > libvaapi (if i recall correctly) implementation for intel only. It was > suggested, I am not sure if landed into the ports. > Hardware video decoding must be done thru some libs, I think they are > vaapi and vdpau for the moment. Then the used software (vlc, mpv, > chromium, firefox) must be compiled with support for one of these, or > both maybe. > > Both ways are praised and hated on the internet, depending of what you > read. As always, there is much marketing involved. > > Anyone is welcome to correct some possible mistakes, I am not a video > hardware expert. > >
