Fixing the mess that is XvMC?

[Kendall Bennett]

Donnie Berkholz <spyderous at gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 10:00 -0700, Kendall Bennett wrote:
> > It seems to me that the best solution to this problem would be for the 
> > libXvMC library to make a call to the X driver to retrieve the name of 
> > the client side vendor library to use (just like Windows does for OpenGL 
> > ICD drivers). Then the libXvMC library could abstract all this away from 
> > the client programs and take care of this by automatically using dlopen() 
> > on the appropriate vendor library at runtime, without the client programs 
> > having to do or know anything about the chipset specific vendor 
> > libraries.
> > 
> > Since this does not exist at present, I would like to work on making this 
> > happen. Since I am not familiar with how to write a private interface 
> > between the client code and the X driver, can someone help me write the 
> > interface code to pass the client library name back from the X driver?
> 
> http://freedesktop.org/pipermail/xorg/2004-September/003085.html and the
> rest of the thread may interest you.

Yes, I read that, but none of this seems to have been accepted into the 
mainline code tree. I agree with what others were saying - we need the X 
driver to report back to the libXvMC library what client side chipset 
specific module to load.

I have to make this work, so I am willing to work on making it happen. I 
would like to revise things in such a way that it will work properly with 
existing drivers (well I guess just the NVIDIA driver anyway, since that 
is the only driver that is really in use in binary form - the i810 driver 
can be modified to work with the new system).

Who else is interested in working on this? Should we set up a working 
group, or should I just go ahead and do it and submit my patches ;-)

Regards,

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Kendall Bennett
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