On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Roland Scheidegger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 17.09.2008 14:57, Carlos Ojea wrote: >> Hello dudes! >> >> My board has an intel SCH wich incorporates integrated graphics and >> video decode capabilities such as H.264. >> I am wondering if the X driver (now I know it exists!) makes use of >> that H.264 hardware decode capabilities so a media player could avoid >> making all the decoding by software. > > Note that this can't work with XV. The driver (I don't think it would > live in the X driver though) would need to support an API designed for > offloading video decoding, hence intel's proposal of VAAPI > (http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/vaapi). And the video players of > course would need to support it too. > I don't think this stuff has materialized yet... > Your driver may support standard XV though for csc conversion/scaling. As far as I know, Intel made vaapi driver and upper layer spliter a reality, but I wonder if individuals have a chance to get them, perhaps he can check http://moblin.org/
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