vaapiIntelG45H264: init at 1.8.2 #26963
Conversation
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Typically we only add stable releases to Nixpkgs. This is an experimental branch and I would think would also be used only by very few. Do you think it is worth adding it to the package set, considering it needs to be maintained (in this case by yourself) as well? Technically, this PR looks good to me. |
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This package is comparatively popular in the Arch Linux User Repository where the remaining development happens. A stable release will never happen as upstream dropped this branch. However taking into account that after a month nobody gave a +1, I believe I am the only NixOS user interested in this package. And as the time goes by there will be even less people in possession of such old hardware (a Thinkpad X200 in my case) and thus it is probably best to close this PR. I will keep my fork up to date as long as my laptop is alive and if someone needs it he/she should be able to find this PR and simply add this package manually. @FRidh, thank you for your time. |
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If someone needs it they should indeed be able to find your code or at least this issue here now. Thanks! |
Motivation for this change
The
vaapiIntelpackage provides MPEG-2 decoding only for GMA 4500 series GPUs. The experimental g45-h264 branch enables H.264 decoding for those chipsets.I've based this package upon the original
vaapiIntelpackage as well as the libva-intel-driver-g45-h264 package in the Arch Linux User Repository which includes a patch for Ironlake graphics as well. The latter one is only available as an anonymous gist which is why I've added it here.Things done
(nix.useSandbox on NixOS,
or option
build-use-sandboxinnix.confon non-NixOS)
nix-shell -p nox --run "nox-review wip"./result/bin/)