Re: [Gnash-dev] Hardware acceleration support

[strk]

On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 07:08:08PM -0700, Rob Savoye wrote:

> The original idea was to make them dynamically loadable plugins, but for
> now the big render library works. (in the branch, that is).

For distributions it'll be best to split them, or 'gnash' package
will have dependencies of all rendering libraries.

> I'm also
> considering renaming backend to librender, and in the branch, also
> moving libvaapi under librender.

+1 on backend -> librender
For vaapi I'm not sure as IIRC it also affected "libmedia" interfaces

> So far I actually haven't seen much performance improvement in my
> testing, (mpeg4 n an FLV) but it looks like the bottleneck is in our
> renderers.

If the work brings dynamically loadable renderers is still
worth it ;)

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