[SOLVED] MMAL crashes the OS on RPi 3B+

[Exnor]

(9th Jul, 2019 03:42 AM)Nachteule Wrote:  

(9th Jul, 2019 12:53 AM)Exnor Wrote:  Is it possible to apply this method to an x86 machine?

It has already been done: The magic word is vaapi support for ffmpeg. Of course, your CPU/GPU/VPU/APU must have the decoder builtin

Thanks for the link, that was a lot of reading that left me with even more questions lol.

What you do on the Pi2 an 3 is partially using the ARM cores to decode HEVC right? This allows for that extraordinary decode performance that i saw, but this VAAPI for what i was able to understand uses the GPU or embedded GPU on x86 ... Or did i misunderstand?

Even so, do you have any info if did team Kodi used this on the Leia version for Windows 10? Because my compute stick is on the Intel list of supported CPU+ GPU and i can't get that kind of performance even when forcing DXVA2.

By googling for Kodi + VAAPI i get only Linux related articles....

Thanks