[vdr] Re: VIA C3 800Mhz

[Gavin Hamill <gdh@acentral.co.uk>]

On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 09:24:02PM +0100, Stefaan Codd? wrote:
> 
> This should be no problem since there are two mpeg decoders available. 
> I wonder if the DVD player is able to use the on board decoder or does
> it use only software decoding?

The only way any Linux application will benefit from the hardware MPEG2 
decoder on the new Epia M is if it runs using VIA's binary-only Xv 
driver for X 4.2.x.

VIA will not be providing source for individual applications to poke 
directly at the hardware =(

gdh


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