Bug#569635: ITP: libva -- Video Acceleration (VA) API for Linux

[Andres Mejia <mcitadel@gmail.com>]

On Sunday 21 February 2010 15:15:29 Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> Hi Andres,
> 
> On Mo, Feb 15, 2010 at 20:06:46 (CET), Andres Mejia wrote:
> > Packaging for libva is available at
> > git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-multimedia/libva.git
> > http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-multimedia/libva.git;a=summary
> 
> On Friday 12 February 2010 19:41:50 Andres Mejia wrote:
> > Packaging for vdpau-video is available at
> > git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-multimedia/vdpau-video.git
> > http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-multimedia/vdpau-video.git;a=summary
> 
> I've looked at both packages, they both seems fine licensing and
> build-script wise. However, both use source format 3.0 (quilt). We have
> decided in the past against this package due to deficiencies in
> git-buildpackage for that format. I'd therefore suggest to revert to
> format 1.0 until we generally agree to upgrade existing packages.

I haven't had an issue with using git-buildpackage with format 3.0 (quilt) 
packages. There's the occasional need to run dh_quilt_unpatch manually to 
remove applied patches (when importing a new upstream orig tarball) but aside 
from that, I really haven't had a issue with git-buildpackage.

> Moreover, do you know if libva works with GM945 chipsets? If yes, you
> have me as co-maintainer. If not, is there perhaps someone else in the
> team interested in these two packages?
> 
> Regarding vaapi in general, I've heard that nivdia's vdpau supports
> hardware deinterlacing. Does something similar exist for vdpau?
> 

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Regards,
Andres