[Open-graphics] mpeg decoding

[Dieter]

> All hardware solutions
> for decoding of video sold these days are made for set top boxes

And that is a significant market for the TRV (sp?) chip.

> > Undocumented hw features aren't very useful.
> > Documented hw that doesn't do what you need isn't very useful.
> > We need both the feature and the documentation.
> 
> First we need something that works at all.

We already have things that work "at all".  But static images
are not sufficient.

> Athlon 64 3700+. MPEG2/4 1080p and 1080i content, no problem, with
> both Xv and mga_vid drivers (using MPlayer, what else ;).
> CPU usage varies between 30 and 70%

Requiring 70% of a AMD64 3700+ is not even close to acceptable.
And probably even higher with other material.  Maybe in ten years.
assuming CPUs get faster.

> slow AGP bus

OGC will have an even slower bus.