Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: FB, video, FOURCC code

[Nick K. <nic...@ma...>]

Hello, Romain!
On Fri, 28 Sep 2001 10:06:48 +0200, you wrote:

> Nick Kurshev wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure - but what about having a support of hardware accelerated
> > decoding? (I mean such things as mpeg1, mpeg2 decoding, de-zigzag and so on)
> > Unfortunatelly I never saw any opensource project which has implementation
> > of such things but if you know how it should be implemented then such extensions
> > are gladly accepted too.
> 
> I don't know how to, as I don't have knowledge of MPEG decoding, and
> the card I own can't do it anyway (maybe It can, but I don't have
> the docs, are Formac redirect me to 3Dlabs and 3Dlabs doesn't
> answer my mail - I thought things were going well when they
> suddenly stopped to answer my mail...)
> 
> Anyway, I'm not sure adding all and every possible features
> to the FB driver will be seen kindly by those-in-charge
> (aka Linus T. and maybe Alan C.) I'm not even sure they'll
> agree on video overlay...
> 
But in this case fbdev will useless and meaningless toy which was
born only for linux-logo :(
But Linux-logo could be displayed through vesafb without native
drivers and NLS problems. Simply because after displaying logo
vesafb should be terminated.

> -- 
> DOLBEAU Romain               | l'histoire est entierement vraie, puisque
> ENS Cachan / Ker Lann        |     je l'ai imaginee d'un bout a l'autre
> do...@ir...             |           -- Boris Vian
> 


Best regards! Nick