Bug#703544: i965-va-driver: Nothing depends / recommends this

[Rogério Brito]

Hi.

On Mar 20 2013, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> Could you please file bugs against the proper packages to Depend
> or Recommend this package?

Even though there are few programs using vaapi in Debian, that's indeed
needed.

OTOH, from a practical perspective, the only programs that I *know* (there
could be others) that link to vaapi and that use such acceleration are vlc
and xbmc.

But from my tests of about 10 minutes ago in a SandyBridge laptop, using
vaapi with vlc was *much* worse than decoding entirely in CPU. Tested with
many H.264 videos with High profile.

The programs that I would like the most to use with vaapi would be
mplayer{,2}, though.


Regards,

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