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authorgb <gb@5584edef-b1fe-4b99-b61b-dd2bab72e969>2010-05-04 08:59:27 +0000
committerGwenole Beauchesne <gbeauchesne@splitted-desktop.com>2010-09-20 12:55:44 +0200
commite226acaea5818df662e092751a2d75dfc5c4940b (patch)
tree30ae7051b3e6134ada3fa7f36a02faa821864a98
parent85466028ad775dd0f79c53a19a016f4d2a07fb6c (diff)
Improve documentation for release.
-rw-r--r--README21
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/README b/README
index 73a2b796..cf2ea0ff 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ Overview
gstreamer-vaapi consists in a collection of VA-API based plugins for
GStreamer and helper libraries.
+ * `vaapidecode' is used to decode MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, VC-1, WMV3
+ videos to video/x-vaapi-surfaces surfaces, depending on the
+ underlying HW capabilities.
+
* `vaapiconvert' is used to convert from video/x-raw-yuv pixels to
video/x-vaapi-surface surfaces.
@@ -33,11 +37,22 @@ Features
* VA-API support from 0.29 to 0.31
* OpenGL rendering through VA/GLX or GLX texture-from-pixmap + FBO
+ * Support for major HW video decoding solutions on Linux (AMD, Intel, NVIDIA)
Requirements
------------
-libgstreamer0.10-dev >= 0.10.0
-libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev >= 0.10.0
-libva-dev >= 0.31.0-1+sds9 (VA/GLX)
+Software requirements
+
+ * libgstreamer0.10-dev >= 0.10.0
+ * libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev >= 0.10.0
+ * libva-dev >= 0.31.0-1+sds9 (VA/GLX)
+
+Hardware requirements
+
+ * AMD platforms with UVD2 (XvBA supported)
+ * Intel Poulsbo (US15W)
+ * Intel Eaglelake (G45)
+ * Intel Ironlake (HD Graphics)
+ * NVIDIA platforms with PureVideo (VDPAU supported)