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Bug 797196 - vaapi: libs: bump libva version requirement
vaapi: libs: bump libva version requirement
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: GStreamer
Classification: Platform
Component: gstreamer-vaapi
git master
Other Linux
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: git master
Assigned To: GStreamer Maintainers
GStreamer Maintainers
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Reported: 2018-09-24 11:29 UTC by Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal
Modified: 2018-11-03 15:55 UTC
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Description Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal 2018-09-24 11:29:04 UTC 
Nowadays the minimal requirement of VA-API version for gstremaer-vaapi is 0.30.4 (libva 1.0.0) which dates from 2009

Actually it is not currently tested that gstreamer-vaapi works with that ancient version.

ffmpeg requests 0.35.0 (libva 1.3.0) from  2014
mesa's state trackers requests 0.39.0 (libva 1.7.0) from 2016
libva-v4l2-request 0.34.0 (libva 1.2.0) from 2013

I would like to bump to 0.39, as mesa's state trackers, but also I would like to hear other opinions.
Comment 1 U. Artie Eoff 2018-09-26 19:15:40 UTC 
What version of libva do common non-EOL distros package nowadays?  I assume if mesa already requires 1.7.0, then distros would at least provide that or newer.  I think the main thing to avoid is forcing users/developers to compile a dependency if distro doesn't package new enough version.

Honestly, it would be great if all dependents and distros could catch up and move to libva >= 2.0 (it's been released for almost a year now).  But I understand reality can make that challenging.

I'd have no problem requiring at least 1.7.0, nonetheless.
Comment 2 sreerenj 2018-09-28 05:51:12 UTC 
It is high time to do a version bump :)
Comment 3 GStreamer system administrator 2018-11-03 15:55:59 UTC 
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