The driver - AKA intel-vaapi-driver - has been unmaintained for four years
now and encoding appears to be broken in various cases. As it's unlikely
that the situation will improve, blocklist the driver for encoding.
Decoding appears to be stable enough to keep it enabled.
The driver can still be used by setting the `GST_VA_ALL_DRIVERS` env
variable.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/7170>
Now that nvidia-vaapi-driver appeared and isn't yet supported by GstVA, we've to
add an allowed list of supported drivers.
This patch implements it adding a environment variable to disable this driver
check: GST_VA_ALL_DRIVERS
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/5616>
This patch removes the code duplication of input buffer importation, in all the
va elements that import video frames. It defines a synthetic object whose
members are required to create a new input buffer and do the importation of the
upstream buffer.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/5257>
VA decoders implementation has been verified from 1.18 through 1.22
development cycles and also via the Fluster test framework. Similar
to other cases, we can prefer hardware over software in most cases.
At the same time, GStreamer-VAAPI decoders are demoted to NONE to
avoid collisions. The first step to their deprecation.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/2312>
