Support for Video Acceleration API (VA API) VaAPI

Thanks for sent it upstream.

There are people working on this. Look files at http://www.splitted-desktop.com/~gbeauchesne/gstreamer-vaapi/ and this thread http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=alpine.DEB.1.10.1005101402160.21123%40thalys.splitted-desktop.com&forum_name=gstreamer-devel

I think this is a priority! It is currently impossible to watch 1080p video (h.264) in Totem because the lack of hardware acceleration.

2skyhard
In current time you can use mplayer-vaapi instead a gstreamer-based players.
For additional information see this wishlist:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/517467

Thanks for the advice! The only problem left is I just found out h.264 hardware decoding is not yet supported in intel drivers for the 4500MHD card. Is there any way to get around this problem or will I have to wait until intel adds the support into the driver, wich could possibly take years...

I looked about your hardware, it seems like your card (4500MHD) has a full set of the hardware acceleration:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_GMA#GMA_X4500
VA-API claims to the support of the G45 chipset:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/vaapi
You may try to rely on the Wikipedia info about your video card. It may be the variations of the chipsets (GL40 GS40 GM45 GS45) virtually the same that G45 is, but I don't exactly know it.
Anyway, try to install va-api library and patched mplayer-vaapi.
More info about mplayer-vaapi you can find here:
http://www.splitted-desktop.com/~gbeauchesne/mplayer-vaapi/

The card has video decoding acceleration capabilities yes, and VA-API also supports MPEG-2 decoding on this card, but it seems like the linux drivers don't yet support h.264 hardware decoding!

I have GMA500. There is a full driver back-end, but if looks at AMD and NVIDIA side, you are right - only proprietary drivers support video acceleration. Sad but true.

Lets hope they add the h.264 decoding support for the g45 very soon. Also it would be great if there were some sort of website that tracked thedevelopment progress of these drivers!

Bugs #531692 and #595661 might be duplicates.

gstreamer-vaapi (0.3.4-0ubuntu2) precise; urgency=low

  * control, rules: Move gtk-doc-tools to build-depends (FTBFS).

 -- Timo Aaltonen <email address hidden> Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:07:26 +0200

gstreamer-vaapi (0.3.4-0ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * Pull from unreleased debian git.

 -- Timo Aaltonen <email address hidden> Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:35:09 +0200

gstreamer-vaapi (0.3.4-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low

  * Initial release (Closes: #nnnn)

 -- Timo Aaltonen <email address hidden> Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:50:56 +0200

Awesome. Now to get VDPAU (PureVideo) working

Bug #531693

it is not fixed. the package is still buggy and va-api does not work properly like in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shotwell/+bug/946742

gstreamer-vaapi 0.5.3 adds support for GStreamer 1.0.x. Additionally, gstreamer-vaapi 0.5.3 brings a vaapidecode fix and fallback for software decoding if no hardware decoder is present.