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McNamara, Steve

Windows Installer Package NVDEC/MSDK

Hello,

I’ve seen the announcement of GStreamer 1.14 including code to support hardware accelerated video decode using NVIDIA and Intel SDKs.

I was hoping to make use of these on Windows but have found that the Windows download packages don’t appear to include this functionality. Which leads me to my questions:

- Is there a release plan for these plugins to be available on Windows?

- Is there a mailing list or discussion forum for management of the Windows installers?

I have built previous versions of GStreamer on Windows but this was a while ago – back in GStreamer 0.10 era. My hope is to avoid this if possible and stick with the excellent pre-built installers provided by you guys. If there is a way though for me to get involved in actively helping in this area please let me know.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Steve McNamara.

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Sebastian Dröge-3

Re: Windows Installer Package NVDEC/MSDK

On Wed, 2018-03-28 at 07:40 +0000, McNamara, Steve wrote:

>
> I’ve seen the announcement of GStreamer 1.14 including code to
> support hardware accelerated video decode using NVIDIA and Intel
> SDKs.
>
> I was hoping to make use of these on Windows but have found that the
> Windows download packages don’t appear to include this functionality.
> Which leads me to my questions:
>
> - Is there a release plan for these plugins to be available
> on Windows?

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McNamara, Steve

RE: Windows Installer Package NVDEC/MSDK

Thanks for the quick response and the heads up on the redistribution issues.

I'll look at grabbing the code for the plugins directly and building it on top of the devel installer.

Steve McNamara.

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Sent: 28 March 2018 09:17
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Subject: Re: Windows Installer Package NVDEC/MSDK

On Wed, 2018-03-28 at 07:40 +0000, McNamara, Steve wrote:

>
> I’ve seen the announcement of GStreamer 1.14 including code to support
> hardware accelerated video decode using NVIDIA and Intel SDKs.
>
> I was hoping to make use of these on Windows but have found that the
> Windows download packages don’t appear to include this functionality.
> Which leads me to my questions:
>
> - Is there a release plan for these plugins to be available
> on Windows?

At least in the past these SDKs disallowed redistribution, that's why the plugins are not included and that's something for NVIDIA and Intel to fix.

> - Is there a mailing list or discussion forum for management
> of the Windows installers?

You just found it :) For feature requests and bug reports there is also
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer

> I have built previous versions of GStreamer on Windows but this was a
> while ago – back in GStreamer 0.10 era. My hope is to avoid this if
> possible and stick with the excellent pre-built installers provided by
> you guys. If there is a way though for me to get involved in actively
> helping in this area please let me know.

You can build both plugins individually based on the binaries provided by the installers.

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Ishmael Sameen

RE: Windows Installer Package NVDEC/MSDK

Well for Windows MSDK, you've got this available as well:

https://github.com/ishmael1985/gstreamer-media-SDK

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McNamara, Steve

RE: Windows Installer Package NVDEC/MSDK

Hi Ishmael,

Thanks for the heads up.

Given that you work for Intel, what's the possibility of Intel relaxing the licensing on their media SDK to allow the plugin to be shipped with the GStreamer SDK?

Failing that I need to invest the time in configuring up toolchains to build the code. It is then a choice of which SDK/plugin combination to evaluate first.

Thanks again for the feedback!

Thanks,
Steve.

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Well for Windows MSDK, you've got this available as well:

https://github.com/ishmael1985/gstreamer-media-SDK

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Ishmael Sameen

RE: Windows Installer Package NVDEC/MSDK

I *worked* for Intel :)

For Windows builds, there should be no issue if you build using the
open-source MFX dispatcher. That's how FFMPEG packages QSV functionality in
their binary builds.

The issue is actually a lot more complex though. They were discussed here:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=782230

and also that necessary D3D11 headers are missing for building accelerated
MSDK plugins using Cerbero, afaik. That's assuming the gst-msdk plugins
support D3D11 acceleration.

Well, if you still would like to build GStreamer with MSDK, you can start
working from this repo:

https://github.com/ph0b/cerbero

It's not going to be easy, but good luck nevertheless :)

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