Intel and WebM developers (in partnership with Collabora and Alibaba) have released a new open source video acceleration API called YAMI (Yet Another Media Infrastructure) for Linux.
Libyami acts as a core codec library for Intel CPU integrated graphic processors to support hardware acceleration / GPU offload s well as video post process, and it is meant to replace or at least compete with VAAPI (VA API).
YAMI is currently optimized for Intel's newer (HD Graphics) integrated GPU platforms like those in Intel Baytrail, Sandybridge, Ivybridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Braswell, Apollo Lake, Kaby Lake, and Gemini Lake processors that integrate Intel HD Graphics.
https://github.com/01org/libyami/wiki
https://github.com/01org/libyami/wiki/Build
https://github.com/01org/libyami
https://github.com/01org/libyami-utils
So far YAMI's libyami features support to hardware accelerated MPEG-2, H.264, HEVC (H.265), VP8, VP9, and JPEG ad-hoc decoding and encoding on these platforms through the Libyami library, including up to 10-bit HEVC and 10-bit VP9 if the the hardware supports it.
Also VC-1 (VC1) / WMV9 (WMV3) is being working on and only a matter of time before it too will also be supported.
Libyami as a solution is more like libstagefright than VAAPI, and moreover, it supports dma_buf and other frame mode, enables texture video easily. libyami doesn't require the relatively terrible boilerplate for hwaccel (creating the hw decoder yourself, maintaining a surface pool, etc.), making this lib very attractive for those who want something simple, and who possibly don't even want to depend on FFmpeg or Libva at all. It also uses some new APIs (not supported by all drivers yet), which workaround VAAPI constraints and restraints limitations, such as requiring a shared context. Namely, the dma_buf stuff.
The future plans for libyami are pretty nice:
https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
Mail list:
https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/libyami
Here is an example h264dec player based on ffmpeg, with yami used in ffmpeg for decoding/encoding (and transcoding), for texture video rendering uses ffmpeg / yami:
https://github.com/01org/player-ffmpeg-yami
Patches submitted to FFmpeg
https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-deve...67382.html
https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-deve...67383.html
https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-deve...67384.html
This thread is really just a feature suggestion to consider adding support for video decoding (hw acceleration) and post-processing through libyami for Linux and Linux like platforms.
Libyami acts as a core codec library for Intel CPU integrated graphic processors to support hardware acceleration / GPU offload s well as video post process, and it is meant to replace or at least compete with VAAPI (VA API).
YAMI is currently optimized for Intel's newer (HD Graphics) integrated GPU platforms like those in Intel Baytrail, Sandybridge, Ivybridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Braswell, Apollo Lake, Kaby Lake, and Gemini Lake processors that integrate Intel HD Graphics.
https://github.com/01org/libyami/wiki
https://github.com/01org/libyami/wiki/Build
https://github.com/01org/libyami
https://github.com/01org/libyami-utils
So far YAMI's libyami features support to hardware accelerated MPEG-2, H.264, HEVC (H.265), VP8, VP9, and JPEG ad-hoc decoding and encoding on these platforms through the Libyami library, including up to 10-bit HEVC and 10-bit VP9 if the the hardware supports it.
Also VC-1 (VC1) / WMV9 (WMV3) is being working on and only a matter of time before it too will also be supported.
Libyami as a solution is more like libstagefright than VAAPI, and moreover, it supports dma_buf and other frame mode, enables texture video easily. libyami doesn't require the relatively terrible boilerplate for hwaccel (creating the hw decoder yourself, maintaining a surface pool, etc.), making this lib very attractive for those who want something simple, and who possibly don't even want to depend on FFmpeg or Libva at all. It also uses some new APIs (not supported by all drivers yet), which workaround VAAPI constraints and restraints limitations, such as requiring a shared context. Namely, the dma_buf stuff.
The future plans for libyami are pretty nice:
https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
Mail list:
https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/libyami
Here is an example h264dec player based on ffmpeg, with yami used in ffmpeg for decoding/encoding (and transcoding), for texture video rendering uses ffmpeg / yami:
https://github.com/01org/player-ffmpeg-yami
Patches submitted to FFmpeg
https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-deve...67382.html
https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-deve...67383.html
https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-deve...67384.html
This thread is really just a feature suggestion to consider adding support for video decoding (hw acceleration) and post-processing through libyami for Linux and Linux like platforms.
