Re: [PATCH 0/1] MR4001: Draft: winegstreamer: Add hardware H264 decoding support

[Thong Thai (＠thongthai)]

On Tue Oct  3 17:17:52 2023 +0000, Rémi Bernon wrote:
> I think the difference comes from rank and ordering differences,
> vaapih264dec has an equal rank (256) as avdec_h264 (256), and we use
> `gst_plugin_feature_rank_compare_func` which sorts by rank, then by
> name, so unless you prioritize hardware decoders specifically,
> avdec_h264 will always be selected first.

Doh, you're right. I also overlooked the `element == NULL` part of the loop...

To make prioritizing the hardware decoder an optional thing, should it be through some environment variable? Or what would the preferred method be?

Thanks.