Xavier Bachelot wrote: > Manuel Werlberger wrote: >> Xavier Bachelot wrote: >>> Manuel Werlberger wrote: >>>> Unfortunately not an answer but another question for the EX10000EG. I >>>> currently use the unichrome drives (which almost made me kick out the >>>> box out of the window) with xvmc support. >>> You're probably mixing stuff here. The unichrome driver doesn't include >>> the xvmc code anymore. That's one of the reasons why openchrome exists. >>> And the unichrome driver doesn't support CX700 anyway. >> The unichrome driver doesn't support? Isn't the unichrome driver the one >> from via? > > No, I refer to unichrome.sf.net. > >> At least i compiled sth from via for my cx700m2 and drm/xvmc >> is working. > > VIA currently have 2 flavors for their driver : > - One with closed (binary only) parts at viaarena.com. The closed parts > include xvmc and it needs a modified mplayer or xine-lib running as root > to take advantage of hardware mpeg acceleration. > - A trimmed down one with only open-sourced parts, but w/o xvmc support, > amongst other things. See linux.via.com.tw.
Ah ok. Now i get the point. Unfortunately i tried so many things to get the stuff running. If i have time at the weekend i will try to get hw mpeg running. > Indeed, it is one of the killer feature of this chipsets. Unfortunately, > MPEG patents are a legal minefield, and it will take time for VIA to > even release the mpeg engine docs, and even more to release code, if at > all possible. We are working with VIA toward this goal, though. Without > the docs, the only way forward is to reverse engineer VIA closed driver, > like it was done for the earlier versions of the hardware mpeg engine, > but nobody is up to that at the moment. > Ok. Thanks for the info. Best, Manuel _______________________________________________ openchrome-users mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.openchrome.org/mailman/listinfo/openchrome-users Main page: http://www.openchrome.org Wiki: http://wiki.openchrome.org User Forum: http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki-view_forum.php?forumId=1
