From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com>
Cc: Raghav Gururajan <rg@raghavgururajan.name>, 65668@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#65668] [PATCH] gnu: gst-plugins-bad: Remove the svt-hevc input.
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2023 10:49:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o7ijuxaf.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c4e8f02d7117d9ac3d315054a6aca049bb30fa37.camel@gmail.com> (Liliana Marie Prikler's message of "Sat, 02 Sep 2023 06:59:29 +0200")
Hi Liliana,
Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com> writes:
[...]
>> It's not possible to build svt-hevc without those extensions: they
>> are depended upon. Because it can't be used, I think it makes sense
>> to not leave dead code (since it's not going to be resolved in the
>> future and re-enabled).
> Looking at the code of svt-hevc, these additional libraries appear to
> be just adding versions of the methods already implemented in C.
>
> You might want to look into commenting the following lines
>
> add_subdirectory(ASM_SSE2)
> add_subdirectory(ASM_SSSE3)
> add_subdirectory(ASM_SSE4_1)
> add_subdirectory(ASM_AVX2)
From my understanding and per upstream comments linked earlier, svt-hevc
is all about implementing some video codec using latest Intel
technologies. The project synopsis on Github reads:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- SVT
HEVC encoder. Scalable Video Technology (SVT) is a software-based video
coding technology that is highly optimized for Intel® Xeon® processors
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
So I don't think it can be made to work (at least usefully) on older
processors, and it's explicitly an upstream non-goal.
[...]
> Well, I'd rather keep the svt-hevc issue above open than concluding it
> cannot be done, but otherwise, yes, LGTM.
I think it's safe to conclude that it cannot be done, given what I've
written above. Does it make sense?
--
Thanks,
Maxim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-03 17:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-01 3:08 [bug#65668] [PATCH] gnu: gst-plugins-bad: Remove the svt-hevc input Maxim Cournoyer
2023-09-01 4:21 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-09-02 1:51 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-09-02 4:59 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-09-03 14:49 ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
2023-09-06 3:47 ` bug#65668: " Maxim Cournoyer
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