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Port details on branch 2025Q4
gstreamer1-vaapi GStreamer hardware video decoding via VA-API plug-in
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Maintainer: multimedia@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2025-11-13 05:48:07
Last Update: 2025-11-13 05:41:23
Commit Hash: d43b27a4
License: LGPL21
WWW:
https://github.com/GStreamer/gstreamer-vaapi
Description:
gstreamer-vaapi is a collection of GStreamer plugins and helper libraries that allow hardware accelerated video decoding through VA-API. Depending on the underlying hardware, the following video decoders are supported: JPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4:2, H.264 and VC-1. Renderers are available for X11, GLX, Wayland and raw DRM for headless pipelines.
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Manual pages:
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pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. @ldconfig
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/gstreamer1-vaapi-1.26.8/catalog.mk
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/gstreamer1-vaapi-1.26.8/LICENSE
  4. /usr/local/share/licenses/gstreamer1-vaapi-1.26.8/LGPL21
  5. lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstvaapi.so
  6. @owner
  7. @group
  8. @mode
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
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Dependency lines:
  • gstreamer1-vaapi>0:multimedia/gstreamer1-vaapi
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/multimedia/gstreamer1-vaapi/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install multimedia/gstreamer1-vaapi
  • pkg install gstreamer1-vaapi
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: gstreamer1-vaapi
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1762994102 SHA256 (gstreamer-vaapi-1.26.8.tar.xz) = a179fc4babc6485658b3e87e197a17cfec15695b703cdf9d52552817d5a05d86 SIZE (gstreamer-vaapi-1.26.8.tar.xz) = 547488

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Dependencies
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Build dependencies:
  1. libdrm>0 : graphics/libdrm
  2. wayland-protocols>=1.15 : graphics/wayland-protocols
  3. bison : devel/bison
  4. gettext-runtime>=0.22_1 : devel/gettext-runtime
  5. gstreamer1-plugins-bad>=1.26.8 : multimedia/gstreamer1-plugins-bad
  6. gstreamer1-plugins>=1.26.8 : multimedia/gstreamer1-plugins
  7. meson : devel/meson
  8. ninja : devel/ninja
  9. pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
  10. python3.11 : lang/python311
  11. xorgproto>=0 : x11/xorgproto
  12. xorgproto>=0 : x11/xorgproto
  13. x11.pc : x11/libX11
  14. xrandr.pc : x11/libXrandr
  15. xrender.pc : x11/libXrender
Runtime dependencies:
  1. gstreamer1-plugins-bad>=1.26.8 : multimedia/gstreamer1-plugins-bad
  2. gstreamer1-plugins>=1.26.8 : multimedia/gstreamer1-plugins
  3. x11.pc : x11/libX11
  4. xrandr.pc : x11/libXrandr
  5. xrender.pc : x11/libXrender
Library dependencies:
  1. libva.so : multimedia/libva
  2. libudev.so : devel/libudev-devd
  3. libva-wayland.so : multimedia/libva
  4. libwayland-client.so : graphics/wayland
  5. libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
  6. libGL.so : graphics/libglvnd
  7. libglib-2.0.so : devel/glib20
  8. libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
  9. libgstreamer-1.0.so : multimedia/gstreamer1
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
===> The following configuration options are available for gstreamer1-vaapi-1.26.8: DRM=on: KMS console and headless support WAYLAND=on: Wayland (graphics) support ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Options name:
multimedia_gstreamer1-vaapi
USES:
bison compiler:c11 gettext-runtime gl gnome gstreamer libtool meson ninja pkgconfig python:build tar:xz xorg
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Master Sites:
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  1. https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer-vaapi/
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Number of commits found: 2

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
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1.26.8
13 Nov 2025 05:41:23
commit hash: d43b27a4f5801293ae0c2cec93d9369ca7df5bf5commit hash: d43b27a4f5801293ae0c2cec93d9369ca7df5bf5commit hash: d43b27a4f5801293ae0c2cec93d9369ca7df5bf5commit hash: d43b27a4f5801293ae0c2cec93d9369ca7df5bf5 files touched by this commit
Jason E. Hale (jhale) search for other commits by this committer
GStreamer1: Update to 1.26.8

https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.26/#1.26.8

MFH:		2025Q4
(cherry picked from commit 41ba8fe748c7e90321eeb47ee4e56fca5bfad10c)
1.26.7
13 Nov 2025 05:40:03
commit hash: 7e56a8faf0f2e7ad3b25233d039d89ab24db9898commit hash: 7e56a8faf0f2e7ad3b25233d039d89ab24db9898commit hash: 7e56a8faf0f2e7ad3b25233d039d89ab24db9898commit hash: 7e56a8faf0f2e7ad3b25233d039d89ab24db9898 files touched by this commit
Jason E. Hale (jhale) search for other commits by this committer
GStreamer1: Update to 1.26.7

https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.26/#1.26.7

(cherry picked from commit ea4a6ee7369144565c7984351f7e54a0315fabe2)

Number of commits found: 2