[mythtv] New Video Decode and Presentation API

[Mitch Gore]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Isaac Richards <ijr at case.edu> wrote:

> On Friday 14 November 2008 1:42:12 pm Andy Ritger wrote:
> > I'm pleased to announce a new video API for Unix and Unix-like platforms,
> > and a technology preview implementation of this API from NVIDIA.
> >
> > The API is called VDPAU (Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix).
>
> Here's a _very_ preliminary patch that enables very basic use of VDPAU in
> myth.  You'll need at least a distclean after applying.
>
> What works:
>  - mpeg2 decode (haven't really tested anything else)
>
> What's missing:
>  - Any sort of hardware capability detection
>  - Deinterlacing
>  - OSD
>  - Stability
>
> Expect things to be very buggy/unstable/hardware catching on fire/etc -
> please
> treat this as more of a proof of concept patch.  I don't need to be
> inundated
> with replies that things don't work at this stage. =)
>
> Make sure you have the 180.x driver installed (and have supported
> hardware),
> then patch myth, make distclean, re-run configure, and then all you need to
> do
> is set the decoder/renderer to vdpau in the video playback profile
> settings.
>
> Isaac
>
>
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Wow,  Isaac thanks for the patch.  Knowing that you have started the process
in trunk is a great sign of soon to be support in trunk with HD-PVR use.