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

[Sven <lu...@dp...>]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 03:33:17PM +0200, Michel D=E4nzer wrote:
> Sven wrote:
>=20
> > > I'm not sure - but what about having a support of hardware accelera=
ted
> > > decoding? (I mean such things as mpeg1, mpeg2 decoding, de-zigzag a=
nd so
> > > on)
> > > Unfortunatelly I never saw any opensource project which has impleme=
ntation
> > > of such things but if you know how it should be implemented then su=
ch
> > > extensions are gladly accepted too.
> >=20
> > mmm, The Xv extension to X does this.
>=20
> No, all it can do is colorspace conversion and scaling.

Yes, sure i meant XvMC, ...

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

Err ? are you sure of it ? There are some new Xv* stuff in the pm3 driver=
,
altough since pm3 don't support anything fancy beside overlay, this could=
 not
be any help for you.

That said, You know about the document describing XvMC, it is not really =
all
that clear, and i looked at it only once, but it was announced on the xfr=
ee
list some time ago.

Friendly,

Sven Luther