Bug#834698: ITP: libyami -- Yet Another Media Infrastructure: Intel VA-API Media codecs with hardware acceleration
Subject: ITP: libyami -- Yet Another Media Infrastructure: Intel VA-API Media codecs with hardware acceleration
Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2016-08-18
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : libyami
Version : 0.4.0
Upstream Author : Xu Guangxin <Guangxin.Xu@intel.com>
* URL : https://github.com/01org/libyami
* License : Apache V2
Description :
Yami is short for Yet Another Media Infrastructure; It is YUMMY to your video experience on Linux like platform. It's license under Apache V2.
Yami is core building block for media solution; with efficient/simple APIs, without external dependency. It parses video stream and decodes/encodes them leverage hardware acceleration. It targets two type of usage:
Hardware accelerated codec is the only gap (there is existing media framework ), for example: Chromeos/Android, maybe ffmpeg.
Usage is simple enough to be interested in codec only, for example: remote desktop client/server, video surveillance.
Yami servers as develop kit for VAAPI, it has rich tests/examples to demonstrate/verify vaapi features. The tests can run without Window system (X11/Wayland etc), also supports advanced feature like texture video (dma_buf etc).
The main page for libyami is: https://github.com/01org/libyami
0.4.0 is latest release, you can download it at https://github.com/01org/libyami/archive/libyami-0.4.0.zip
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