[mythtv-users] [old] Re: XvMC and libmpeg2 to be dropped in 0.25

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

Hi

On 7 February 2011 07:09, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh at mimosa.com> wrote:

> As I understand it VDPAU is only supported by the nVidia proprietary
> drivers on nVidia hardware.  I'd like something supported by open
> source on a wide variety of hardware.  I don't exactly have a
> candidate API: XvMC is too limited, VA API is apparently not there
> yet, XvBA is AMD-proprietary (I think), perhaps OpenGL isn't overkill.

VDPAU may only currently be used by nvidia ; but that API is often and
the wrapping libraries are open source.