media-video/mplayer-1.1_rc1_p20120820 with vaapi use flag

I made an updated version of my mplayer-vaapi ebuild.

You can find my media-video/mplayer ebuild with vaapi use flag in my overlay.

By , November 12th, 2012 | Tags: , , | Category: Packages | 7 comments

media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20120116 with vaapi use flag

An mplayer ebuild which supports VA-API hardware acceleration isn’t something you can easily find. There is one in the calculate overlay but it’s quite ancient nowadays. This is why a made a new ebuild based on the latest git code from http://gitorious.org/vaapi/mplayer.

You can find my media-video/mplayer ebuild with vaapi use flag in my overlay.

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By , May 29th, 2012 | Tags: , , | Category: Packages | 10 comments

Who washed my video? x264 vs x265 ‘placebo’ comparison

I wanted to know something about the actual x265 development state and since I didn’t find anything up to date I decided to do my own tests. First of all I compiled a recent snapshot of x265:

./x265 –version x265 [info]: HEVC encoder version 0.7+259-5e2043f89aa1 x265 [info]: build info [Linux][GCC 4.8.2][64 bit] 8bpp x265 [info]: […]

By , February 23rd, 2014 | Category: Encoders, ffmpeg, x264, x265 | 11 comments

[Gentoo] G45/GM45 h264 VA-API video decoding

On May 2011 Intel released G45/GM45 h264 VA-API in their g45-h264 branch. More then one year later they still didn’t merge it to master and no one touched that code in the meantime.

Fortunately if you tweak your system a bit that code is good enough to play a 1080p video with a generous bitrate, […]

By , May 30th, 2012 | Tags: , , | Category: Open Source Graphic Drivers | 18 comments