Bug#736217: ITP: gstreamer-vaapi -- VA-API plugins for GStreamer

[Timo Aaltonen <tjaalton@ubuntu.com>]

On 21.01.2014 09:03, Vincent Cheng wrote:
> Hi Timo,
> 
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 10:45 PM, Timo Aaltonen <tjaalton@ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> On 21.01.2014 08:25, Vincent Cheng wrote:
>>> Package: wnpp
>>> Severity: wishlist
>>> Owner: Vincent Cheng <vcheng@debian.org>
>>>
>>> * Package name    : gstreamer-vaapi
>>>   Version         : 0.5.7
>>>   Upstream Author : Gwenole Beauchesne <gwenole.beauchesne@intel.com>
>>> * URL             : http://gitorious.org/vaapi/gstreamer-vaapi
>>> * License         : LGPL-2.1+
>>>   Programming Lang: C
>>>   Description     : VA-API plugins for GStreamer
>>>
>>> gstreamer-vaapi is a collection of GStreamer plugins and helper libraries that
>>> allow hardware accelerated video decoding, encoding and processing through
>>> VA-API.
>>
>> Hi, I've had it packaged in
>>
>> git://git.debian.org/git/users/tjaalton-guest/gstreamer-vaapi.git
>>
>> feel free to reuse whatever you need.
> 
> Thanks, that saves me quite a bit of work compared to basing off of
> the current package in Ubuntu!

yeah that one is ancient.. earlier 0.5.x didn't build against gst1.0/1.2
so it got stuck at 0.3.6. Updating it to 0.5.7 is still a WIP

> If it interests you, would you like to be the maintainer of
> gstreamer-vaapi (and move the packaging over to collab-maint while
> we're at it)? I'd be glad to just sponsor what you have; it spares me
> additional work and you've already done great work on the package
> anyways.

Works for me, pushed the branches there now and renamed them to match
the "default" names (master, upstream).


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