[mythtv] Fwd: Ticket #6182: VDPAU support for 0.21-fixes

Janne Grunau janne-mythtv at grunau.be
Tue Jan 27 13:37:11 UTC 2009


On Tuesday 27 January 2009 14:04:59 Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> Hi
>
> 2009/1/27 Janne Grunau <janne-mythtv at grunau.be>:
> > Why would anyone think it is advisable to port a in development feature
> > for an alpha quality capability of binary only drivers?
>
> Because trunk is currently unusable for most and it seems at this
> stage that 0.22 is a long way away.

I don't think it is in such a bad state

> As for playing politics, if you don't like nvidia drivers being closed
> source, why bother adding VDPAU support in trunk in the first place.

While I would indeed prefer open source drivers, you are missing the point, 
VDPAU is unstable, nvidia considers it alpha quality. There are bugs in 
their implementation, which is not open source. We have some workarounds for 
some bugs which might break with the next driver release. That happened at 
least twice since the initial VDPAU release.

> fine that it's your opinion, but at least be consistent... (and BTW,
> VDPAU itself isn't closed source and nvidia has invited other to
> participate)

How is VDPAU open source? where is the source code to the VDPAU 
implementation in their driver?

> As to why I want VDPAU, it provides the best deinterlacer I've seen on
> mythtv so far ; all the other ones suck in comparison unfortunately...

Have you tried greedy deint or yadif?

> So you close this ticket fine, but at least don't lock it, let it run
> its course ... if many people think like you, it will die by itself...

trac is not the proper place to track patches with zero chance of getting 
applied.

Janne
you free to fork mythtv


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