On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 08:04:22PM -0400, Tyler wrote: > Hi Stefan, > > On 12/06/12 12:46, Stefan Dirsch wrote: > >I've just enabld the build of XvMC/VDPAU drivers in our openSUSE buildservice > >(project X11:XOrg, package Mesa). Could you give it a try? > > > >Thanks, > >Stefan > > Thanks for the build, it does indeed provide the state trackers > (manually added the respective packages with Yast). > > Wish I could report as equal success with actual usage results with > them LOL. I would have to say these state trackers are definitely > what's known as a "work in progress". Though I haven't played > around with them much yet (just a few basic tests with mplayer (the > original)), the video quality is poor -- choppy (mplayer complains > the system is too slow) and there are lots of red/green artifacts > (as has been reported by many others elsewhere; > http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?57261-Mesa-Gallium3D-Pipe-Video-Has-Landed > ... though I seem to get better results then the images shown in > that thread, but my results are far from free of artifacts as others > report). > > I'm curious what the experience with them would be like with r300 or > nouveau supported hardware would be, so if there are other readers > with such devices using them, please report. > > I note that there hasn't been too much work on these state trackers > lately (see > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/log/?qt=grep&q=xvmc & > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/log/?qt=grep&q=vdpau ), but I > believe that the primary contributor, Christian König, is currently > busy with the pursuit along another interesting avenue (see > http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?69261-Radeon-UVD-Support-Going-Through-Code-Review&p=253608#post253608 > ). Hopefully in time both of these will become fully useful. > > Anyway, Thanks again!
Thanks for sharing the results with us. I just did a submit request for openSUSE:Factory (upcoming openSUSE 12.2) with these changes in, but we won't install any of these new libvdpau-/libXvMC- packages by default. ;-) Thanks, Stefan Public Key available ------------------------------------------------------ Stefan Dirsch (Res. & Dev.) SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Tel: 0911-740 53 0 Maxfeldstraße 5 FAX: 0911-740 53 479 D-90409 Nürnberg http://www.suse.de Germany -------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]
