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[doug]

On 08/03/2017 09:50 PM, Daniel van Vugt wrote:
> Oh, I see, sorry.
>
> gstreamer1.0-vaapi depends on:  libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0
> which is not "the bad plugins" package:  gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad
> but it is an obviously-related support library still.
>
> I'm working in this area lately so will see how feasible it is to 
> loosen that dependency.
     I believe it's 2 .so's used. Any possibility of improving those 
libs so the can go to the good plugin?
     (- the vaapi ppa build isn't working here  on a Haswell machine.
>
> On 03/08/17 23:06, Bryan Quigley wrote:
>> After installing va-driver-all on fresh ubuntu 17.10 install (so
>> ignoring the few packages that brings in)
>>
>> gstreamer1.0-vaapi does still bring in libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0
>> libopencv-core3.1 libtbb2 libva-drm1 libva-wayland1 libva-x11-1 (only
>> 5 MB).
>>
>> This doesn't block us adding it to the restricted sets, but might
>> complicate getting it in main.  (I wonder if opencv might end up
>> heading for main eventually anyway.  Definitely useful in
>> embedded/drones but might also be involved in the future of webcams -
>> think Intel RealSense)
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 10:12 PM, Daniel van Vugt
>> <daniel.van.vugt at canonical.com> wrote:
>>> 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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