fev 0.2.0

High-level VA-API bindings
Documentation

Ferrovanadium: VA-API bindings for Rust

This library provides high-level wrappers around VA-API (libva), the Video Acceleration API used by Linux, Android, and BSD systems.

It loads libva at runtime, so there is no build-time dependency on it. This matches the behavior typically expected of applications: if no hardware acceleration is available, they should fall back to software decoding.

Features

  • Blatantly unsound API
  • Completely unmaintained (developed only for my own personal amusement)
  • Exposes almost none of the features VA-API has
  • Crashes your program with a segfault when you have an AMD GPU
  • Might even crash the entire graphics driver when you have an AMD GPU
  • Really, you should probably not even read this README if you're on AMD