Re: Hardware acceleration with gstreamer1-vaapi and html5 video

[Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro igalia com>]

On Tue, 2016-12-13 at 12:32 +0100, Gianvito Cavasoli wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm using Epiphany with gstreamer1-vaapi and radeon driver (r600). If
> I set the environment variable "export LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=radeonsi"
> Epiphany don't play the html5 video (youtube, etc.), but if I use
> "export LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=vdpau" the video are played normally but
> use a lot of CPU camparison to "radeonsi" variable (I've tested this
> with Totem and a movie in full HD). It's a problem of Epiphany,
> WebkitGTK or gstreamer1-vaapi?
> Thanks

Hi,

It's very unlikely to be an Epiphany problem. It could be a WebKit
problem, but I would try asking gstreamer1-vaapi developers first.

Michael