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On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Richard Morton wrote:<br>
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Within the next few hours AMD will be publishing open-source driver code<br>
that exposes their Unified Video Decoder (UVD) engine on modern Radeon HD<br>
graphics cards. This will finally allow open-source graphics drivers to<br>
take advantage of hardware-accelerated video decoding.<br>
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This open-source AMD UVD support will allow for accelerated playback of<br>
H.264, VC-1, and MPEG variants on the HD 4000 through HD 7000 series GPUs.<br>
Interestingly, and to much pleasure, the UVD support is being exposed over<br>
VDPAU.<br>
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<a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_opensource_uvd&num=1" target="_blank">http://www.phoronix.com/scan.<u></u>php?page=article&item=amd_<u></u>opensource_uvd&num=1</a><br>
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You failed to mention that they are using VDPAU!!!!<br>
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Or perhaps you failed to read what he mentioned. ;)</blockquote><div><br></div><div style>Facepalm! I swear I read what he wrote twice and I guess VDPAU didn't grab my attention.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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This is a big win as I<br>
believe it means that no changes to MythTV will be required to support it,<br>
and that support should be on par with NVIDIA, assuming of course that the<br>
AMD drivers are half way decent.<br>
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Here's hoping! (And, especially, that the open-source drivers have decent support for it--since AMD seems to drop support for chips in their drivers very quickly.)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>Agreed.</div>
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