On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Jean-Michel Pour? <jm at poure.com> wrote: > Dear Friends, > > Just a quick note that VDPAU patch was applied to FFmpeg. > > This opens the door to full hardware decoding of MPEG-2 and > MPEG-4/H.264/AVCHD decoding. Still a lot of development is needed in MLT > to support VDPAU.
True, but as a first step I need to verify that I can just get back the decoded image. I need to be able to use this without the output parts of VDPAU. Otherwise, it's only useful as a player and not to kdenlive. It will be interesting way down the road to consider using some of the compositing and scaling features of VDPAU, but that's too much work right now, and it is still a limiting factor to have anything tied to their output API so long as it can not still use the CPU or until you can make it interop with anything you can program in CUDA. Even then, all the code would have to ported to CUDA, and one must weigh the effort when it only benefits NVIDIA users. -- +-DRD-+
