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

[Michel <mic...@ii...>]

Sven 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.
> 
> mmm, The Xv extension to X does this.

No, all it can do is colorspace conversion and scaling.

The brand new XvMC extension does this, the problem is the lack of
documentation. There is only one implementation for i81x (done by an Intel
employee) and no players support it yet.


> That said, i guess the problem here would be the same as for generic accels
> in the kernel, that is it will not go in. Most probably, a userland library
> would need to be created which could cooperate with the fbdev driver.

Like http://directfb.org ?


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