On Friday 12 February 2010 18:44:59 Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le vendredi 12 février 2010 à 18:36 -0500, Andres Mejia a écrit :
> > Description : Video Acceleration (VA) API for Linux
> >
> > Video Acceleration API (VA API) is a library ("libVA") and API
> > specification which enables and provides access to graphics hardware
> > (GPU) acceleration for video processing on Linux and UNIX based operating
> > systems. Accelerated processing includes video decoding, video encoding,
> > subpicture blending and rendering. The specification was originally
> > designed by Intel for its GMA (Graphics Media Accelerator) series of GPU
> > hardware, the API is however not limited to GPUs or Intel specific
> > hardware, as other hardware and manufacturers can also freely use this
> > API for hardware accelerated video decoding.
>
> I don’t think the last sentence has a place in the package’s long
> description. If some day it gets support for other hardware, it will be
> more than time for updating the description, but currently it is an
> Intel-specific library.
>
There is support for NVIDIA hardware through a VDPAU driver and ATI hardware
through an XvBA driver.
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Regards,
Andres
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