[mythtv-users] intel accelerated h264 encode on linux (was: MythTV Is Now Forked As Torc)

[Raymond Wagner]

On 2/25/2012 02:11, GZ wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Raymond Wagner<raymond at wagnerrp.com>  wrote:
>> Then there are things like Intel Quicksync.  That's great and all, but
>> completely useless to us until Intel releases Linux driver support for
>> it.  Depending on licensing restrictions, that may never happen.  There
> I found a couple of announcements suggesting that intel has released
> the relevant code.  It seems that vaapi has an interface to allow for
> accelerate encoding, and that intel has released the glue to make h264
> encode work under linux.  They just don't seem to be calling it
> quicksync.
>
> More recent commits suggest that they've already got support for ivy
> bridge's encoding hardware.

Some quick searching turns up...

http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/showthread.php?t=101190&o=a&s=lr

I don't know if the full Media SDK is required for encoding, or if the 
limited bits VAAPI bits are sufficient.