<div dir="ltr">You failed to mention that they are using VDPAU!!!! This is a big win as I believe it means that no changes to MythTV will be required to support it, and that support should be on par with NVIDIA, assuming of course that the AMD drivers are half way decent.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Richard Morton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard.e.morton@gmail.com" target="_blank">richard.e.morton@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 dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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="font-size:12px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
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<span style="font-size:12px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><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>
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