[vlc-devel] GSoC Project : GPU decoding

[Andre-John Mas]

On 18-May-2009, at 14:42, Etienne Membrives wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> I'm Etienne Membrives, a 2nd year student in engineering at the Ecole
> Centrale Paris. It's my first Summer of Code, I'm doing it with
> VideoLAN, and I'm very happy to be here. My IRC nickname is “Sterops”.
>
> My project will be on implementing GPU decoding support for HD videos,
> mainly by using VA-API from Intel. My mentor is Jean-Paul Saman.
>
> I've made a wiki page [1] for the project.
>
> Best regards,
> --  
> Etienne Membrives ~ Sterops
>
> [1] http://wiki.videolan.org/SoC_2009/GPU_Decoding_Support

Welcome.

I am just curious as to the choice of VA-API and how this could  
eventually
be migrated to use OpenCL. I ask the question, as OpenCL promises to
cover more architectures than those originating from Intel. Of course
VA-API is probably more mature at this point in time.

André-John