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[Daniel van Vugt]

Doug, I bring good news...

gstreamer1.0-vaapi actually does not depend on the "bad" plugins, or any 
other gstreamer plugins.

And yes you are right mpv is much better than totem for performance and 
smoothness. I hope to bring totem up to the same standard eventually.

totem/gst-vaapi will work in a Wayland session after we release my fixes 
in 17.10. You can try an early version here:

https://launchpad.net/~vanvugt/+archive/ubuntu/videoaccel

- Daniel


On 03/08/17 04:58, doug wrote:
> gstreamer1.0-vaapi currently deps on the bad plugins, are you all going 
> to change that?
> 
> For the most part it's worked well over the past couple of years, not 
> nearly as efficient as vaapi in mpv but still a decent reduction in cpu use.
> 
> (- probably 20 -35% of what totem would use without, similar to what vlc 
> does when vlc happens to work.
> 
> Though atm it, (totem/gst-vaapi) doesn't seem to work at all in wayland 
> session, actually only mpv does sans window deco..
> 
> Doug
> 
> 
> On 08/02/2017 07:30 AM, Will Cooke wrote:
>>
>> On 2 August 2017 at 02:53, Daniel van Vugt 
>> <daniel.van.vugt at canonical.com <mailto:daniel.van.vugt at canonical.com>> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>     Although gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad does have important uses such as
>>     providing audio codecs and the GL plugin, totem will install it on
>>     demand, anyway. So yes you should be able to drop it.
>>
>>     I would like to add a couple to that list though:
>>      - va-driver-all (should include i965-va-driver)
>>      - gstreamer1.0-vaapi
>>
>>
>>
>> Is there value in getting them promoted to main for 18.04?  I think 
>> the codec licensing is taken care of by the graphics hardware vendor 
>> so I think we should be ok there.  If Totem will pull them in 
>> automatically that's good - but I'd love to be able to go one step 
>> further and have them "in the box".
>>
>> Cheers, Will
>>
>>
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