Video and Browsing

After my testing on linux ppc i understand the video playback
on browser are did on firefox by ffmpeg plugin and
on qupzilla, midori (webkit browsers) by gstreamer plugin.

i was thinking why dont made the same on our belowed system?
will be possible integrate gstreamer on amigaos and make odissey play video from it?

will one day hope for have the vdpau and va accleration for video in hw decoding on radeonhd ?
https://github.com/i-rinat/libvdpau-va-gl

HTML5-Video is on its way, so Odyssey and Netsurf should integrate an inbuild Playback-Method that make use of hardware-acceleration.

That would be really great!

Odyssey can already play video. Its video player could use a bit of work though, including adding composited video support...

Hans

@Hans

I know , kas1e make a good job.
but have vdpau and va plus gstreamer on amigaos will gave us the opportunity to run full hw acelerated video decoding on browser and players.

@tlosm

VDPAU is something that's going to take a lot of effort. In the meantime, adding composited video support would at least give video playback a boost.

Hans

@Hans
yes it will be better than nothing, the video decoding will take the advance of fastest card.
but i hope in future the release of some vdpau.library for have the hw accels of gpu decoding.this will help our os that we know use only one cpu on smp machines.