[mythtv-users] Re: Re: ATI GPU Transcoding...

[Mike Frisch]

On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 09:28:14AM -0600, Andrew Close wrote:
> i thought that the movie industry looked at the gaming industry as the
> 'red headed step child' and only put up with them because they
> occassionally benefited from video games turned crappy movies.

I agree, however the video card manufacturers have been promising these
multimedia features for years and NEVER delivered.  I remember more than
10 years ago, ATI promised accelerated video playback on their
Mach64-based products.  That never happened...

> after reading the article, it looks like ATI's software will only be
> included with their drivers, not as an extra package.  i guess that
> may benefit users of that other OS, but unless we can get someone to
> reverse engineer the way the chips work and write decent drivers then
> we're outta luck.

Same old story for Linux users...  ATI can't release their proprietary
driver specs.  Heard that before.  I'm still waiting for support for the
tuner in my AIW 7500 (yeah, I've heard of GATOS and it ain't quite
there).

I'm personally getting really tired of this.  It is the reason why I no
longer support ATI after having been an ATI user for so many years.