G965 video features

[Tony Houghton]

In <4674B682.4080103 at aquazul.com>, Mourad De Clerck wrote:

> On 17/06/07 03:36, Tony Houghton wrote:
> > G965 will work for video playback in Linux. I'm not sure exactly what
> > advantages it has over the 945G even in Windows, but I think it has more
> > support for decoding MPEG 2 and some MPEG 4 support. Are these extra
> > featuers supported in Xv or similar, or likely to be in the future?
> 
> While I don't exactly have the answer to your question, I'd like to
> point to this nice table on wikipedia showing the differences between
> the different intel graphic cores.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_GMA#Table_of_GMA_graphics_cores_and_chipsets

Thanks, that's quite a helpful table.

> The GMA 950 (in the 945G) has fewer hardware features relating to video
> acceleration compared to the GMA X3000 (in the G965). 3D-wise, the X3000
> is also clearly the better chip.
> 
> Whether or not the video features are exposed in the xorg driver I don't
> know, the only note I found on Xv is here:

Actually, I think I probably meant XvMC.

> http://www.intellinuxgraphics.org/documentation.html
> 
> Hope it helps a little,

Well, I found that site already and it referred me to this list, but
thanks anyway!

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