Title:          libva2.tcz
Description:    Video Acceleration API
Version:        2.5.0
Author:         VA-API team
Original-site:  http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/vaapi
Copying-policy: as per COPYING file.
Size:		68KB
Extension_by:   aus9
Tags:	        Video API media
Comments:       The main motivation for VA-API (Video Acceleration API) is to enable hardware accelerated video
                decode/encode at various entry-points (VLD, IDCT, Motion Compensation etc.) for the prevailing
                coding standards today (MPEG-2, MPEG-4 ASP/H.263, MPEG-4 AVC/H.264, and VC-1/VMW3). Extending
                XvMC was considered, but due to its original design for MPEG-2 MotionComp only, it made more
                sense to design an interface from scratch that can fully expose the video decode capabilities
                in today's GPUs. The current video decode/encode interface is window system independent, so
                that potentially it can be used with graphics sub-systems other than X. In a nutshell it is
                basically a scheme to pass various types of data buffers from the application to the GPU for
                decoding or encoding.
Change-log:	2010/07/28 First Version git original TC maintainer blofsy
                2012/10/25 Updated to 1.1.0 (stable release)
                           API: add raw DRM support for headless pipelines
                           Fix generic VA/GLX implementation for newer cluttersink versions
                           Fix threading issues in VA objects reference code (+Krzysztof Kotlenga)
                           API: data structures for JPEG Baseline decoding
                           API: clarify the definition of slice_data_bit_offset
                           Add a simple test case for JPEG decoding
                           API: make {Top,Bottom}FieldOrderCnt signed (Yi Wang)
                           Refine VA trace & VA fool utilities
                           Move i965 driver to a specific repository (vaapi/intel-driver)
                           Fix DSO link issue in tests
                           Fix fglrx driver name detection
                           Fix API vs. DSO vs. package versioning
                           API: rename VA_DECODE_ERROR_TYPE to VADecodeErrorType
                           Fix memory leaks (Edgar Hucek)
                           Fix VA trace logs (Alexander Osin)
                           Fix vaTerminate() with some applications, e.g. GStreamer
                           API: fix VA_ROTATION_270 definition
                           Add a simple H.264 encoder "avcenc" (Chang Zhou)
                           Fix VA tracer (Alexander Osin)
                           Fix vaBufferInfo() interface (Alexander Osin)
                           API: add VARenderMode interface to select overlay or GPU rendering mode
                           API: add VARenderDevice interface to allow rendering to an external device
                           API: add VADisplayAttribOverlay{ColorKey,AutoPaintColorKey} interface
                2012/10/25 Updated to 1.1.0
                2013/10/08 updated 1.1.0 -> 1.2.1 (juanito)
                2015/12/17 updated 1.2.1 -> 1.6.1 (juanito)
                2017/02/21 updated 1.6.1 -> 1.7.3 (juanito)
                2018/12/11 updated 1.7.3 -> 1.8.3 (juanito)
Current:        2019/11/12 updated 1.8.3 -> 2.5.0, renamed (juanito)
