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

[Joseph Fry]

>  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<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.  ;)


Facepalm!  I swear I read what he wrote twice and I guess VDPAU didn't grab
my attention.


>
>
>     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.)
>

Agreed.
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