And I was just about to get exited, until I read this:<br><br>XvMC issues<br>● Limited hardware driver support<br>– Intel i810, i915/945 MC, 965 MC working in progress<br>– Unichrome VLD<br>– ATI, Nvidia (?)<br>● Limited modern video codec support, just for<br>
MPEG1/2, can't support H.264/AVC.<br>– Multiple intra/inter prediction modes (multiple<br>motion vector styles)<br>– Multiple reference pictures<br>– No in-loop filter<br><br>So it appears there is no hope for my old machine with an AGP port, and nvidia G-Force 4 MMX 440. Looks like I will have to upgrade, but the craze will have to settle first before I buy anything. I wonder why they don't create add-on cards in PCI format? so that it will work on older machines? I guess they want you to upgrade to keep on making money...<br>
<br>Isn't there a method to use OpenGL to assist HD decoding?<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 23/04/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Pasi Kärkkäinen</b> <<a href="mailto:pasik@iki.fi">pasik@iki.fi</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 09:56:23AM +0400, Igor wrote:<br> > > > The question is: Which of them will offer decent open source drivers for<br> > > > HD decoding, and when?<br> > ><br> > > I wonder if every vendor pushes his own API for using these decoding<br>
> > accelerators? Or is there some "standard" (It's surely beyond XvMC)?<br> ><br> > there's VAAPI - Video Decode Acceleration API Specification<br> > <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/vaapi">http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/vaapi</a><br>
><br> > but seems it hasn't finished yet :(<br> ><br> <br> <br>And then there's some "XvMC for H.264/AVC" work/patches:<br> <br> <a href="http://people.freedesktop.org/~zhen/xds2007_xvmc.pdf">http://people.freedesktop.org/~zhen/xds2007_xvmc.pdf</a><br>
<br> <a href="http://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDS2007/Notes">http://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDS2007/Notes</a> (link taken from here)<br> <br><br> -- Pasi<br> <br><br> _______________________________________________<br> vdr mailing list<br>
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