vaapidecode: GStreamer VA-API Plugins 1.0 Plugins Reference Manual

## vaapidecode vaapidecode — A VA-API based video decoder |

## Object Hierarchy

        GObject
        ╰── GInitiallyUnowned
            ╰── GstObject
                ╰── GstElement
                    ╰── GstVideoDecoder
                        ╰── GstVaapiDecode

## Description

vaapidecode decodes from raw bitstreams to surfaces suitable for the vaapisink or vaapipostproc elements using the installed VA-API back-end.

In the case of OpenGL based elements, the buffers have the GstVideoGLTextureUploadMeta meta, which efficiently copies the content of the VA-API surface into a GL texture.

Also it can deliver normal video buffers that can be rendered or processed by other elements, but the performance would be rather bad.

### Example launch line

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    gst-launch-1.0 filesrc location=~/big_buck_bunny.mov ! qtdemux ! h264parse ! vaapidecode ! vaapisink

## Synopsis

### Element Information

plugin | vaapi
author | Gwenole Beauchesne <gwenole.beauchesne@intel.com>, Halley Zhao <halley.zhao@intel.com>, Sreerenj Balachandran <sreerenj.balachandran@intel.com>, Wind Yuan <feng.yuan@intel.com>
class | Codec/Decoder/Video

### Element Pads

name | sink
direction | sink
presence | always
details | video/mpeg, mpegversion=(int)2, systemstream=(boolean)false
| video/mpeg, mpegversion=(int)4
| video/x-divx
| video/x-xvid
| video/x-h263
| video/x-h264
| video/x-h265
| video/x-wmv
| video/x-vp8
| video/x-vp9

name | src
direction | source
presence | always
details | video/x-raw(memory:VASurface), format=(string){ ENCODED, I420, YV12, NV12 }, width=(int)[ 1, 2147483647 ], height=(int)[ 1, 2147483647 ], framerate=(fraction)[ 0/1, 2147483647/1 ]
| video/x-raw(meta:GstVideoGLTextureUploadMeta), format=(string){ RGBA, BGRA }, width=(int)[ 1, 2147483647 ], height=(int)[ 1, 2147483647 ], framerate=(fraction)[ 0/1, 2147483647/1 ]
| video/x-raw, format=(string){ I420, YV12, NV12 }, width=(int)[ 1, 2147483647 ], height=(int)[ 1, 2147483647 ], framerate=(fraction)[ 0/1, 2147483647/1 ]

## Functions

## Types and Values