VDPAU H.264 Support Extended

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Phoronix: VDPAU H.264 Support Extended

The VDPAU API has been extended to accommodate H.264's Hi444PP profile...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTg2MTM

[[Knuckles]]

Does this mean we'll eventually get hardware-accelerated Hi10p?

According to wikipedia:

High 10 Profile (Hi10P, 110)
Going beyond typical mainstream consumer product capabilities, this profile builds on top of the High Profile, adding support for up to 10 bits per sample of decoded picture precision.

High 4:2:2 Profile (Hi422P, 122)
Primarily targeting professional applications that use interlaced video, this profile builds on top of the High 10 Profile, adding support for the 4:2:2 chroma subsampling format while using up to 10 bits per sample of decoded picture precision.

High 4:4:4 Predictive Profile (Hi444PP, 244)
This profile builds on top of the High 4:2:2 Profile, supporting up to 4:4:4 chroma sampling, up to 14 bits per sample, and additionally supporting efficient lossless region coding and the coding of each picture as three separate color planes.

So Hi444P builds on top of Hi422P which is on top of Hi10P.

It would be excellent news if we could get Hi10p without having to do decoding on the cpu!