View source for SoC 2009/GPU Decoding Support

{{SoCProject|year=2009|student=[[User:Sterops|Etienne Membrives]]|mentor=[[User:jpsaman|Jean-Paul Saman]]}}

== Project Abstract ==
The Video Acceleration API is an API designed to provide hardware acceleration for graphic application using the processing power of graphic cards. Drivers exists for Intel graphic cards. A backend for the VDPAU API (by nVidia) has been released and the same is under way for ATI cards.
Thus, this project aims to implement a decoder and the corresponding video output for VLC, using the power of VA API to reduce CPU consumption while reading h.264, VC-1 and MPEG-4 videos.

== Timeline ==
* '''March, 23''': Official start date
* '''June, 5''': End of classes, I will be fully available for GSoC from this date
* '''June, 8''': (''Report 0'') Report on already existing solutions (other softwares)
* '''June, 15''': (''Report 1'') 
* '''June, 22''': (''Report 2'') Functional VAAPI Decoder
* '''June, 29''': (''Report 3'') 
* '''July, 5''': (''Report 4'') Functional VAAPI Video Output
* '''July, 12''': (''Report 5'') Mid-term evaluations
* '''July, 19''': (''Report 6'') Integration of video filters
* '''July, 26''': (''Report 7'') Debugging
* '''August, 3''': (''Report 8'') Documentation
* '''August, 10''': «Pencil down» date

== GIT Repository ==
* GitWeb : [http://membrives.fr/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=vlc/.git]