Re: [PATCH v4 3/5] staging: Introduce NVIDIA Tegra video decoder driver

From: Nicolas Dufresne
Date: Sun Dec 10 2017 - 14:29:59 EST


Le dimanche 10 dÃcembre 2017 Ã 21:56 +0300, Dmitry Osipenko a Ãcrit :
> > I've CC-ed Maxime and Giulio as well: they are looking into adding support for
> > the stateless allwinner codec based on this code as well. There may well be
> > opportunities for you to work together, esp. on the userspace side. Note that
> > Rockchip has the same issue, they too have a stateless HW codec.
>
> IIUC, we will have to define video decoder parameters in V4L API and then make a
> V4L driver / userspace prototype (ffmpeg for example) that will use the requests
> API for video decoding in order to upstream the requests API. Does it sound good?

Chromium/Chrome already have support for that type of decoder in their
tree. In theory, it should just work.

Nicolas