Bug#569635: ITP: libva -- Video Acceleration (VA) API for Linux

[Andres Mejia]

On Friday 12 February 2010 18:36:34 Andres Mejia wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Andres Mejia <mcitadel at gmail.com>
> 
> * Package name    : libva
>   Version         : 1.0.1
>   Upstream Authors: Waldo Bastian <waldo.bastian at intel.com>
> 
>                   : Jonathan Bian <jonathan.bian at intel.com>
> 
> * URL             : http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/vaapi
> * License         : MIT/X11
>   Programming Lang: C
>   Description     : Video Acceleration (VA) API for Linux
> 
> Video Acceleration API (VA API) is a library ("libVA") and API
>  specification which enables and provides access to graphics hardware (GPU)
>  acceleration for video processing on Linux and UNIX based operating
>  systems. Accelerated processing includes video decoding, video encoding,
>  subpicture blending and rendering. The specification was originally
>  designed by Intel for its GMA (Graphics Media Accelerator) series of GPU
>  hardware, the API is however not limited to GPUs or Intel specific
>  hardware, as other hardware and manufacturers can also freely use this API
>  for hardware accelerated video decoding.

Packaging for libva is available at
git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-multimedia/libva.git
http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-multimedia/libva.git;a=summary

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Regards,
Andres