Editing GStreamer (section)

====Video acceleration====
[[File:GStreamer and TI DMAI.svg|thumb|Through special plugins provided by Texas Instruments, GStreamer makes use of hardware acceleration provided by e.g. [[Texas Instruments DaVinci]].]]

There are various [[Semiconductor intellectual property core|SIP blocks]] that can do the computations to decode certain video codecs, such as [[Nvidia PureVideo|PureVideo]], [[Unified Video Decoder|UVD]], [[Intel Quick Sync Video|QuickSync Video]], [[OMAP 4|TI Ducati]] and more. Such needs to be supported by the [[device driver]], which in turn provides one or multiple [[Application programming interface|interfaces]], like [[Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix|VDPAU]], [[Video Acceleration API|VAAPI]], [[Distributed Codec Engine]] or [[DirectX Video Acceleration|DXVA]] to end-user software like MPlayer to access this hardware and offload computation to it.

* It is possible to use [[Video Coding Engine]] with GStreamer through the [[OpenMAX IL]] wrapper plugin {{mono|gst-omx}}.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/gst-omx/1.0.0.html |title=GStreamer OpenMAX IL wrapper plugin |website=gstreamer.freedesktop.org |access-date=2017-07-21 |archive-date=2017-07-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170710025641/https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/gst-omx/1.0.0.html |url-status=live }}</ref> This is for example possible on the [[Raspberry Pi]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=34250&p=599066&hilit=gstreamer#p599066|title=Gstreamer 1.0 for raspbian|website=GRaspberrypi.org|access-date=2017-07-21|archive-date=2017-07-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170710095711/https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=34250&p=599066&hilit=gstreamer#p599066|url-status=live}}</ref>
* The [[Semiconductor intellectual property core|SIP core]] present on some [[Texas Instruments]] SoCs is also accessible through GStreamer: {{mono|gst-dmai}}, {{mono|gst-openmax}}, {{mono|gst-dsp}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/GStreamer|title=GStreamer Plug-ins for TI hardware|website=Processors.wiki.ti.com|access-date=2017-07-21|archive-date=2017-06-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170628173254/http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/GStreamer|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix|VDPAU]] and [[Video Acceleration API|VAAPI]] are supported with [[GNOME Videos]] >= 2.28.0 and GStreamer >= 0.10.26 since 2010<ref>{{cite web|url=http://eu.fluendo.com/press/fluendo-codec-pack-release-11-keeping-technologies-fast-pace/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140624184008/http://eu.fluendo.com/press/fluendo-codec-pack-release-11-keeping-technologies-fast-pace/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2014-06-24 |title=Fluendo Codec Pack Release 11 bring VDPAU and VAAPI support |date=2010-03-25 }}</ref>
* [[Broadcom Crystal HD]] is supported<ref>{{cite web |author=Debian Webmaster|url=https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/gstreamer0.10-crystalhd |title=Debian - Details of package gstreamer0.10-crystalhd in wheezy |website=Packages.debian.org |access-date=2017-07-21 |archive-date=2017-06-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170629060143/https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/gstreamer0.10-crystalhd |url-status=live }}</ref>