[Open-graphics] mpeg decoding

[Jan Knutar]

On Sunday 11 February 2007 18:16, Dieter wrote:

> > And even though modern ATI and nvidia cards support
> > a quite large subset of what is needed to decode
> > MPEG2/MPEG4/h.264 hardly anyone uses it.
>
> There is no way to use the ATI hw features.  Nvidia can only
> be used with a binary-only driver that is extremely buggy, has
> security holes, and causes data loss.  Remember the point of
> OGP?  To make a graphics/video chip that you can actually use.

nvidia binary has atleast mpeg2 hardware assist, maybe mpeg4
too, but nobody uses it? I think Unichrome has mpeg4 assist too,
and it might have some use, since Via made a fork of xine that
supports it... I've not heard of any h264 decoding help under
Linux, except of course colourspace transform that's usable for
all codecs.