Tony Houghton wrote:
How good is Linux support for these? I was under the impression that XvMC doesn't work with ATI at all, and is broken in many versions of NVidia's Linux drivers. And that the latter don't support deinterlacing even though the hardware has been capable for quite a while now (since 6600 I heard).
A list of NVidia hardware capabilities is here:
http://www.nvidia.com/page/purevideo_support.html
As for current XvMC support, only IDCT and Motion Compensation with MPEG2 (and possibly MPEG1) are available in hardware - no hw deinterlacing.
Full support may happen eventually, judging by a comment here from NVidia staff:
http://macslow.thepimp.net/ (see bottom of "UDS 2006 recap, Google, nVIDIA etc." article.)
"Furthermore I hinted them towards us OpenSource folks wanting to see nVIDIA’s PureVideo HD chip-features exposed in the Linux-drivers too. They have plans for that, but not in the immediate future."
Regards,
Richard