Enable all the VA-API drivers that is available for x86

[hmtheboy154]

This include Intel's vaapi & iHD + GalliumVA for other hardware.

Required PRs to be merged first before merging this :

• Adding support building Gallium VA drivers android_external_mesa3d#9
• Revert "ffmpeg: android: Switch to system partition" android_external_ffmpeg#4
• Revert "libva: Switch to system partition" android_hardware_intel_common_libva#1
• Revert all the commits moving the codec to /system android_external_stagefright-plugins#2
• Update ffmpeg codecs and move it to /vendor android_external_stagefright-plugins#3

Required projects needed to get to use this commit:

• https://github.com/android-generic/platform_hardware_intel_common_vaapi
• https://github.com/android-generic/hardware_intel_common_media-driver
• https://github.com/android-generic/hardware_intel_common_gmmlib

Fixed: waydroid/waydroid#1088

[ytzeng1]

Second that!

[supechicken]

Hello, may I kindly ask how can I test this out in this moment? (I am okay on compiling it by myself)

[ytzeng1]

Hello, may I kindly ask how can I test this out in this moment? (I am okay on compiling it by myself)

I think @hmtheboy154 shared a compiled version on telegram chat. Go search the chat history with keyword 'vaapi'. I remember the mouse cursor was a bit jumpy during test.

[supechicken]

Hello, may I kindly ask how can I test this out in this moment? (I am okay on compiling it by myself)

I think @hmtheboy154 shared a compiled version on telegram chat. Go search the chat history with keyword 'vaapi'. I remember the mouse cursor was a bit jumpy during test.

Thanks for the reminder! However, that's an LMODroid image that seems impossible to install gapps on (I tried with several gapps variants and had no luck).

So I ended up with compiling LOS on my own, and VAAPI works :)

If anyone is interested:
https://github.com/supechicken/waydroid-vaapi-build

[ytzeng1]

Hello, may I kindly ask how can I test this out in this moment? (I am okay on compiling it by myself)

I think @hmtheboy154 shared a compiled version on telegram chat. Go search the chat history with keyword 'vaapi'. I remember the mouse cursor was a bit jumpy during test.

Thanks for the reminder! However, that's an LMODroid image that seems impossible to install gapps on (I tried with several gapps variants and had no luck).

So I ended up with compiling LOS on my own, and VAAPI works :)

If anyone is interested: https://github.com/supechicken/waydroid-vaapi-build

Thanks for sharing! I had a quick test and it is working well so far.

[sf467]

Waiting for this to merge 🔥🔥🔥

[RushingAlien]

Hey it's been a year by now, what's the status?

[Spadium]

any status on this?

[shawly]

Is there any reason that there is no answer from any of the waydroid maintainers on any of these PRs?

@aleasto
@electrikjesus
@erfanoabdi

Like would really appreciate if you could tell us why this is dangling around since 2024 so people could stop asking what's the status here.

[aleasto]

It is a little crazy to me that people are so interested in VA-API on waydroid when it doesn't work on most native desktop applications.

Since this hasn't made it into upstream mesa, maintaining this downstream will be a burden I'm not willing to sustain.

We're not shipping ffmpeg anymore for the same reasons.

The built-in video codecs by Google work great, and the benefit of this change is greatly overshadowed by its maintenance cost.

[shawly]

Thanks for replying so quickly!

It is a little crazy to me that people are so interested in VA-API on waydroid

Hardware decoding for media playback. I had the thought of replacing my NVIDIA SHIELD TV 2015 with a Tiger Lake laptop which is technically more capable for 4K60 playback, but I didn't wanna miss out on having SmartTube for YouTube and HW decoding here keeps CPU usage really low. The ATV builds from @supechicken work very well tho.