XvMC Support?

[Gregory David Bowden]

On Thursday 24 September 2009 18:42:19 Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Gregory David Bowden
>
> <gregbowden2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Can anyone tell me the time frame for XvMC support in the radeon driver?
>
> Cooper is working on adding g3dvl support to the r300 gallium driver.
> That will eventually support XvMC on r3xx-r5xx hardware.  For
> r1xx/r2xx hardware a conventional XvMC lib would need to be written
> since there is not likely to be a gallium driver for those chips due
> to their limited shader features.  For r6xx/r7xx, the information is
> available, but either a gallium driver or a conventional XvMC lib
> needs to be written.
>
> Alex

Great, thanks!

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Regards,

Gregory Bowden