[mythtv-users] AMD hardware accelerated video via opensource driver with VDPAU support?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 04/05/2013 09:44 AM, Joseph Fry wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Richard Morton wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_opensource_uvd&num=1
> You failed to mention that they are using VDPAU!!!!

Or perhaps you failed to read what he mentioned.  ;)

>    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.
>

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.)

Mike