Re: [vdr] new graphics processor from VIA S3 for HD video

Hi!

Udo Richter schrieb:

There's a lot going on in the hardware accelerated HDTV area lately. Beside the two big graphic chipsets, there's the Intel Atom/Poulsbo chipset offering full HDTV acceleration at low power, the Intel G45 chipset, the AMD 780G chipset, and a cooperation of NVidia and VIA for a new unnamed HD capable low cost chipset.

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)?

Matrix-multiplying (AMD,Nvidia,S3,Intel) with (Linux, X.Org, Mplayer/ffmpeg, Gstreamer,...) gives surely a lot of (duplicate) code.

Ciao

Martin