AMD Releases UVD Video Decode Support For R600 GPUs

[bridgman]

Engineering makes the chips. Marketing makes the numbers. I don't know why we are even discussing this

[chrisr]

We could always find out...

UVD 2.1 might, I'm not sure off hand.

Speaking as an owner of a Radeon 4890HD, is there some "Voodoo code" that I could run in order to find out?

[agd5f]

Speaking as an owner of a Radeon 4890HD, is there some "Voodoo code" that I could run in order to find out?

revert this mesa patch:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=80771e47b6c1e47ab55f17311e1d4e227a9eb3d8

and test something that uses VDPAU/GL interop.

[Mat2]

LOL:
"X-Video Bitstream Acceleration (XvBA) ? AMD's future hardware acceleration API for Linux/UNIX operating-system."
(from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified...coder#See_also )

[drSeehas]

Engineering makes the chips. Marketing makes the numbers. I don't know why we are even discussing this

So you want to say, AMD Marketing makes the documentation (Databook etc.)?
The marketing people I know won't be able to write technical documents. They can't deal with registers and bits...

[agd5f]

So you want to say, AMD Marketing makes the documentation (Databook etc.)?
The marketing people I know won't be able to write technical documents. They can't deal with registers and bits...

Give me a break. Enough trolling already. In which documents the authers choose to call it out specifically and why, I don't know, but it's irrelevant. All those chips all have UVD 2.0.

[bridgman]

So you want to say, AMD Marketing makes the documentation (Databook etc.)?
The marketing people I know won't be able to write technical documents. They can't deal with registers and bits...

Why would I say that ? I said Marketing chooses the component & product model numbers that go into documentation (among other places).

Inside engineering the discussion is more about the lower level subcomponents as Christian said, and whether something is called UVD 1, UVD+, UVD2 or UVD Intercooled Turbo doesn't matter, except to the extent that the numbers provide useful names for capability flags in the code.

[chrisr]

Something like what?

revert this mesa patch:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=80771e47b6c1e47ab55f17311e1d4e227a9eb3d8

and test something that uses VDPAU/GL interop.

Sorry, that advice is too vague: I have no idea what uses VDPAU/GL interop and what doesn't. Isn't there a simple test case that you could suggest, please?

[agd5f]

Sorry, that advice is too vague: I have no idea what uses VDPAU/GL interop and what doesn't. Isn't there a simple test case that you could suggest, please?

xbmc requires it. I'm not sure off hand what other apps use it.

[Gusar]

Sorry, that advice is too vague: I have no idea what uses VDPAU/GL interop and what doesn't. Isn't there a simple test case that you could suggest, please?

"mpv --hwdec=vdpau --vo=opengl" uses interop, "mpv --hwdec=vdpau --vo=vdpau" doesn't.