[Bug 797196] New: vaapi: libs: bump libva version requirement

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https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797196

Bug ID: 797196
Summary: vaapi: libs: bump libva version requirement
Classification: Platform
Product: GStreamer
Version: git master
OS: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Normal
Component: gstreamer-vaapi
Assignee: gstreamer-***@lists.freedesktop.org
Reporter: ***@igalia.com
QA Contact: gstreamer-***@lists.freedesktop.org
CC: ***@gmail.com, ***@igalia.com
GNOME version: ---

Nowadays the minimal requirement of VA-API version for gstremaer-vaapi is
0.30.4 (libva 1.0.0) which dates from 2009

Actually it is not currently tested that gstreamer-vaapi works with that
ancient version.

ffmpeg requests 0.35.0 (libva 1.3.0) from 2014
mesa's state trackers requests 0.39.0 (libva 1.7.0) from 2016
libva-v4l2-request 0.34.0 (libva 1.2.0) from 2013

I would like to bump to 0.39, as mesa's state trackers, but also I would like
to hear other opinions.

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Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal <***@igalia.com> changed:

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Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal <***@igalia.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from U. Artie Eoff <***@intel.com> ---
What version of libva do common non-EOL distros package nowadays? I assume if
mesa already requires 1.7.0, then distros would at least provide that or newer.
I think the main thing to avoid is forcing users/developers to compile a
dependency if distro doesn't package new enough version.

Honestly, it would be great if all dependents and distros could catch up and
move to libva >= 2.0 (it's been released for almost a year now). But I
understand reality can make that challenging.

I'd have no problem requiring at least 1.7.0, nonetheless.

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--- Comment #2 from sreerenj <***@gmail.com> ---
It is high time to do a version bump :)

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GStreamer system administrator <***@gstreamer.net> changed:

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Status|NEW |RESOLVED
Resolution|--- |OBSOLETE

--- Comment #3 from GStreamer system administrator <***@gstreamer.net> ---
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