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
