From a9a2f3613040c4f90bf15cbd76f8671252ecc043 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anton Khirnov Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 09:57:41 +0200 Subject: doc: add a section about building with libmfx --- doc/general.texi | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc/general.texi') diff --git a/doc/general.texi b/doc/general.texi index ef9bc6a577..a6ee1f71d9 100644 --- a/doc/general.texi +++ b/doc/general.texi @@ -181,6 +181,17 @@ end user having AviSynth or AvxSynth installed - they'll only need to be installed to use AviSynth scripts (obviously). @end float +@section Intel QuickSync Video + +Libav can use Intel QuickSync Video (QSV) for accelerated encoding and decoding +of multiple codecs. To use QSV, Libav must be linked against the @code{libmfx} +dispatcher, which loads the actual decoding libraries. + +The dispatcher is open source and can be downloaded from +@url{https://github.com/lu-zero/mfx_dispatch.git}. Libav needs to be configured +with the @code{--enable-libmfx} option and @code{pkg-config} needs to be able to +locate the dispatcher's @code{.pc} files. + @chapter Supported File Formats and Codecs You can use the @code{-formats} and @code{-codecs} options to have an exhaustive list. -- cgit v1.2.3