I believe ATI's attempt at this is there XvBA extension.<div><br></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Video_Bitstream_Acceleration">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Video_Bitstream_Acceleration</a></div><div>
<br></div><div>As Steve pointed out though, UVD2 is what you want and the machine you pointed out has a 3400. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Nick Morrott <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:knowledgejunkie@gmail.com">knowledgejunkie@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On 03/12/2008, Steve Heistand <<a href="mailto:steve@heistand.org">steve@heistand.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> <a href="http://www.asus.com/news_show.aspx?id=13626" target="_blank">http://www.asus.com/news_show.aspx?id=13626</a><br>
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> is there an equiv of vdpau for ati video cards?<br>
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</div>Recent ATI cards (cards >= Radeon HD 2400 ) include UVD technology<br>
which allows on-card decoding of HD resolution H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2<br>
(UVD2, cards >= Radeon HD 4800) video.<br>
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More details at<br>
<a href="http://ati.amd.com/technology/Avivo/pdf/ATI_Avivo_HD_tech_brief.pdf" target="_blank">http://ati.amd.com/technology/Avivo/pdf/ATI_Avivo_HD_tech_brief.pdf</a>.<br>
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No Linux driver support yet, but ATI are getting better at releasing specs.<br>
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