[mythtv-users] Anymore news on VAAPI (Video Acceleration API)?

[Nicolas Will]

On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 12:06 +0100, Friedrich Clausen wrote:
> 
> In light of the recent NVIDIA announcement [1] that they are providing
> hardware assisted playback of video, I was wondering how the
> freedesktop.org Video Accelleration API effort was going [2]? VAAPI is
> another API for doing what NVIDIA's VDPAU does but created by Intel. I
> have googled around but it seems they only practical Video
> Accelleration ready for actual use would be NVIDIA's VDPAU and XvMC
> for mpeg2.

NVIDIA completewly dropped XvMC in favour of VDPAU, wich deals with
MPEG-1, MPEG-2, H.264 and VC-1 on some chipsets. It also can deal with
deinterlacing and some other blending for OSD.


>  Does anyone have more info?

I've asked about the status of VA-API very recently on the xorg list and
was answered but complete silence...


> 
> I am asking this because, while I certainly appreciate NVIDIA's
> efforts in making available VDPAU for Linux, I would like to build a
> small, low-power (based on the Atom CPU for instance) MythTV system
> using completely free (as in freedom) software and the only barrier at
> the moment is in hardware assisted video playback.

Guess why I have originally bough an Intel 956G-based motherboard
initially, with a sDVO DVI extension card.

Nico