Re: [RFC] Informal meeting during ELCE to discuss userspace support for stateless codecs

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>]

Em Mon, 8 Oct 2018 13:53:29 +0200
Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> escreveu:

> Hi all,
> 
> I would like to meet up somewhere during the ELCE to discuss userspace support
> for stateless (and perhaps stateful as well?) codecs.
> 
> It is also planned as a topic during the summit, but I would prefer to prepare
> for that in advance, esp. since I myself do not have any experience writing
> userspace SW for such devices.
> 
> Nicolas, it would be really great if you can participate in this meeting
> since you probably have the most experience with this by far.
> 
> Looking through the ELCE program I found two timeslots that are likely to work
> for most of us (because the topics in the program appear to be boring for us
> media types!):
> 
> Tuesday from 10:50-15:50

Should work. There's an speech from Julia that could be interesting,
related to the usage of AI for improving the quality of patches
that could be interesting.

> 
> or:
> 
> Monday from 15:45 onward

I won't be able to attend on Monday.

> 
> My guess is that we need 2-3 hours or so. Hard to predict.
> 
> The basic question that I would like to have answered is what the userspace
> component should look like? libv4l-like plugin or a library that userspace can
> link with? Do we want more general support for stateful codecs as well that deals
> with resolution changes and the more complex parts of the codec API?
> 
> I've mailed this directly to those that I expect are most interested in this,
> but if someone want to join in let me know.
> 
> I want to keep the group small though, so you need to bring relevant experience
> to the table.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 	Hans



Thanks,
Mauro