I've already paid extra for it. I have an NVidia and I've already paid for h264 hardware assist but can only use it in Windows, not Linux.<br><br>- Mark.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/2/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Daniel Kristjansson</b> <<a href="mailto:danielk@cuymedia.net">danielk@cuymedia.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 11:38 -0600, <a href="mailto:matthew.garman@gmail.com">matthew.garman@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br><br>> I only recently realized that XvMC only works with MPEG2 (via<br>> testing XvMC with mplayer). It never occurred to me that some video
<br>> might not broadcast MPEG2.<br>><br>> If we could create a table of channels and their broadcast format,<br>> and put it on the Wiki, it might save some folks a lot of<br>> hair-pulling!<br><br>All ATSC channels use MPEG-2.
<br><br>At the moment the BBC is the only broadcaster using MPEG-4 AVC,<br>and so far it is only testing this on a limited basis.<br><br>> As a side note, going forward, I can see where it would be nice if<br>> graphics cards supported XvMC for more "modern" video codecs,
e.g.,<br>> h264, divx, etc.<br><br>Yes it would. Tell your favorite graphics card manufacturer<br>that you would pay extra for this feature. They are for the<br>most part very customer driven. They would need to pay licensing
<br>fees for every graphics card shipped with this feature, so<br>they won't do it unless they perceive that people are willing<br>to pay extra for it.<br><br>-- Daniel<br><br>_______________________________________________
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