Open Source Media Framework - Linux* FFmpeg-VAAPI and FFmpeg-QSV Getting Started

1. FFmpeg* VAAPI/QSV Installation Environment
2. FFmpeg-VAAPI/QSV Examples Command Lines
    

FFmpeg-VAAPI reference command lines: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Hardware/VAAPI#FullExamples
FFmpeg-QSV reference command lines: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Hardware/QuickSync#FullExamples

1. FFmpeg-VAAPI/QSV sample source codes link

   *FFmpeg-VAAPI:
        Decode: https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/master/doc/examples/hw_decode.c 
               (to find the line of "type = av_hwdevice_find_type_by_name(argv[1])", and to use "vaapi" as the input param for "argv[1]")
        Encode: https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/master/doc/examples/vaapi_encode.c
        Transcode: https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/master/doc/examples/vaapi_transcode.c
        *FFmpeg-QSV:
        Decode: https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/master/doc/examples/qsvdec.c

    

2. FFmpeg-VAAPI/QSV reference link

   *FFmpeg official website: http://ffmpeg.org/
       *FFmpeg Issue Tracking
           FFmpeg issue are tracking here
           The FFmpeg-vaapi and FFmpeg-qsv relative issues are monitored and listed here
       *FFmpeg official document: http://ffmpeg.org/documentation.html
           FFmpeg-vaapi wiki: http://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Hardware/VAAPI
           FFmpeg-QSV wiki: http://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Hardware/QuickSync
       *FFmpeg official mail list: http://lists.ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel

    

Linux Gstreamer-VAAPI and Gstreamer-MSDK Getting Started

1. Gstreamer VAAPI/MSDK Installation Environment

2. GStreamer-VAAPI/MSDK Command Line Examples

3. Gstreamer-VAAPI/MSDK reference link

*Gstreamer official website: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer
    *GStreamer Issue Tracking
       GStreamer-VAAPI issue are tracking here
       GStreamer-MSDK relative Issues are monitored and listed here
    *GStreamer official document: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-docs/
       GStreamer-VAAPI wiki: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer-vaapi
       GStreamer-MSDK wiki: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/

Comments

About decode latency, there are three parts which legally introduce latency in MediaSDK decoder (To see detail from the Link). The gstreamer-msdk and ffmpeg-qsv will call MediaSDK to do video acceleration, so there are same impact to gstreamer-msdk and ffmpeg-qsv.

Project: Open Source Media Framework