Status of Intel Xvmc support?

[Keith Packard]

On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 10:24 -0500, Devin Heitmueller wrote:
> Looking through the archives, I have not seen any progress on Xvmc
> support in the Intel driver for quite some time.
> 
> Could someone please summarize where Xvmc support is at for the
> various Intel devices (g33/g35/g45 etc)?

XvMC support for G965/GM965/G45/GM45 was merged to master a few days
ago.

> Is there any work ongoing in this area?  In particular, is there any
> hope of getting 720/1080 playback support?  I know that Intel has
> expressed support for its new VA API which supports newer formats, but
> there is still considerable value in MPEG2 playback via Xvmc due to
> the increasing popularity of ATSC.

The hard work turns out to be building the codecs, which should work
with either API, so XvMC will remain supported for MPEG2 at least.

-- 
keith.packard at intel.com
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