<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Within the next few hours AMD will be publishing open-source driver code that exposes their Unified Video Decoder (UVD) engine on modern Radeon HD graphics cards. This will finally allow open-source graphics drivers to take advantage of hardware-accelerated video decoding.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px">...</span></div>
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><br></span></div>This open-source AMD UVD support will allow for accelerated playback of H.264, VC-1, and MPEG variants on the HD 4000 through HD 7000 series GPUs. Interestingly, and to much pleasure, the UVD support is being exposed over VDPAU.</span><div>
<font color="#000000" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px"><br></span></font></div><div><a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_opensource_uvd&num=1">http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_opensource_uvd&num=1</a><font color="#000000" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px"><br>
</span></font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>