On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 2:48 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Saturday, 29th of August 2009 10:53:06+0200, Harald Braumann wrote: >> Hi, >> >> is there any chip out there for which hardware accelerated HD video >> decoding is supported by an open-source driver? Or for which at least >> documentation exists so that it could be implemented? >> >> I for one care less about 3D acceleration. But it's very frustrating >> that it's still not possible to watch full HD videos on Linux. > > I don't know if this guy is still working on it, but you might want to have a > look at > http://bitblitter.blogspot.com/2009/01/yes-im-still-decoding-video-using.html > I don't know much about video decoding, but maybe the best way to do video > acceleration is to implement the decoder in OpenCL, because it will work on > future gallium3d drivers and (most important) the implementation could be > completely open source. (One could also implement advanced deinterlacing and > other video filters in an efficent way) Unfortunately nobody is working on > this > right now ...
But using OpenCL instead of dedicated video hardware would result into patent problems so that many distros cannot ship it by default. _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
