On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 09:56:23AM +0400, Igor wrote:
The question is: Which of them will offer decent open source drivers for
HD decoding, and when?
I wonder if every vendor pushes his own API for using these decoding
accelerators? Or is there some standard (It's surely beyond
And I was just about to get exited, until I read this:
XvMC issues
● Limited hardware driver support
– Intel i810, i915/945 MC, 965 MC working in progress
– Unichrome VLD
– ATI, Nvidia (?)
● Limited modern video codec support, just for
MPEG1/2, can't support H.264/AVC.
– Multiple intra/inter
Hi!
Theunis Potgieter schrieb:
So it appears there is no hope for my old machine with an AGP port, and
nvidia G-Force 4 MMX 440.
I sit in a similar board (GF3 / GF2MX).
Looks like I will have to upgrade, but the craze
will have to settle first before I buy anything. I wonder why they
Hi!
Igor schrieb:
there's VAAPI - Video Decode Acceleration API Specification
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/vaapi
but seems it hasn't finished yet :(
But the Idea sounds quite nice... I dream of a VDR box with an S3
graphics card, decoding full HD DVB-S2 with only free software
So in an ideal world, it would be great to have a pci add-on card, that does
not only do assisting, but actually does all the features, so by sending the
compressed stream directly to board, and it does all the un-compressing and
uses its own internal memory (on board memory) to do movement of
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9502138983.html
Chipmaker Via's S3 Graphics division has announced a high-performance discrete
graphics processor positioned as the first to meet the embedded industry's
thermal requirements. The 4300E targets gaming and signage, offers HD video,
DVI or HDMI
Igor Nikanov wrote:
Chipmaker Via's S3 Graphics division has announced a high-performance
discrete graphics processor positioned as the first to meet the
embedded industry's thermal requirements. The 4300E targets gaming
and signage, offers HD video, DVI or HDMI output, and mixes dedicated
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Udo Richter schrieb:
There's a lot going on in the hardware accelerated HDTV area lately.
Beside the two big graphic chipsets, there's the Intel Atom/Poulsbo
chipset offering full HDTV acceleration at low power, the Intel G45
chipset, the AMD 780G chipset, and a cooperation of NVidia
