Re: [PATCH v4 3/5] staging: Introduce NVIDIA Tegra video decoder driver

[Dmitry Osipenko]

On 10.12.2017 22:29, Nicolas Dufresne wrote:
> Le dimanche 10 dÃcembre 2017 Ã 21:56 +0300, Dmitry Osipenko a Ãcrit :
>>> I've CC-ed Maxime and Giulio as well: they are looking into adding support for
>>> the stateless allwinner codec based on this code as well. There may well be
>>> opportunities for you to work together, esp. on the userspace side. Note that
>>> Rockchip has the same issue, they too have a stateless HW codec.
>>
>> IIUC, we will have to define video decoder parameters in V4L API and then make a
>> V4L driver / userspace prototype (ffmpeg for example) that will use the requests
>> API for video decoding in order to upstream the requests API. Does it sound good?
> 
> Chromium/Chrome already have support for that type of decoder in their
> tree. In theory, it should just work.

Everything is possible, in theory ;)