XvMC issues
● Limited hardware driver support
– Intel i810, i915/945 MC, 965 MC working in progress
– Unichrome VLD
– ATI, Nvidia (?)
● Limited modern video codec support, just for
MPEG1/2, can't support H.264/AVC.
– Multiple intra/inter prediction modes (multiple
motion vector styles)
– Multiple reference pictures
– No in-loop filter
So it appears there is no hope for my old machine with an AGP port, and nvidia G-Force 4 MMX 440. Looks like I will have to upgrade, but the craze will have to settle first before I buy anything. I wonder why they don't create add-on cards in PCI format? so that it will work on older machines? I guess they want you to upgrade to keep on making money...
Isn't there a method to use OpenGL to assist HD decoding?
On 23/04/2008, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 09:56:23AM +0400, Igor wrote:
> > > The question is: Which of them will offer decent open source drivers for
> > > HD decoding, and when?
> >
> > I wonder if every vendor pushes his own API for using these decoding
> > accelerators? Or is there some "standard" (It's surely beyond XvMC)?
>
> there's VAAPI - Video Decode Acceleration API Specification
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/vaapi
>
> but seems it hasn't finished yet :(
>
And then there's some "XvMC for H.264/AVC" work/patches:
http://people.freedesktop.org/~zhen/xds2007_xvmc.pdf
http://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDS2007/Notes (link taken from here)
-- Pasi
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