On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:48:11 +0200 cc....@gmx.de wrote: > On Saturday, 29th of August 2009 10:53:06+0200, Harald Braumann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > is there any chip out there for which hardware accelerated HD video > > decoding is supported by an open-source driver? Or for which at > > least documentation exists so that it could be implemented? > > > > I for one care less about 3D acceleration. But it's very frustrating > > that it's still not possible to watch full HD videos on Linux. > > I don't know if this guy is still working on it, but you might want > to have a look at > http://bitblitter.blogspot.com/2009/01/yes-im-still-decoding-video-using.html > I don't know much about video decoding, but maybe the best way to do > video acceleration is to implement the decoder in OpenCL, because it > will work on future gallium3d drivers and (most important) the > implementation could be completely open source. (One could also > implement advanced deinterlacing and other video filters in an > efficent way) Unfortunately nobody is working on this right now ...
That might be a nice work-around for the moment. But it means using a lot of resources (i.e. millions and millions of transistors) for something that dedicated hardware can do effortless, draining maybe a view watts. Cheers, harry
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