Originally posted by monraaf
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There May Finally Be Better ATI Linux Video Playback
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I couldn't bear to go back to closed source drivers.
The open source ATI drivers are just too slick.
Roll on Gallium!
Or UVD3 or 4 or whichever gen will get a split UVD.
Probably won't matter anymore by that point.
However, even though I've got a 785G board plugged into my TV using the onboard with the open source drivers, Boxee (XBMC of course) uses shaders to accelerate the playback? At least it claims to. The advanced shaders doesn't work with the open drivers but the basic option does.
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Originally posted by bridgman View PostNo, the first implementation is for MPEG-2, but that's probably the right place to start the learning curve.
Other video formats use most of the same core concepts and operations.
Well, I don't mean to bitch, but at least a status update would be nice, maybe even guesstimating when he plans to merge it to master and start to work on h264.
Basically this is the most important missing feature from r600g at the moment.
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If I understand AMD correctly, they're saying they need somebody to compromise their DRM on Windows so they can eventually allow us to use their video decode engine.
That's a healthy position. Only problem is nobody cares about cracking their DRM since it's a completely useless placebo when anybody already has access to the Blu-ray contents, the network content and the HDMI output.
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Actually no, that's not what we are saying, but I'm sure you knew that
What we are saying is that we need to be extremely careful when opening up anything around the video decode engine to avoid releasing anything which might compromise the DRM on other OSes.Test signature
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Originally posted by bridgman View PostWhat we are saying is that we need to be extremely careful when opening up anything around the video decode engine to avoid releasing anything which might compromise the DRM on other OSes.
I really hope you don't get hacked, because I'm guessing it would be bad for AMD and I don't want the limited OSS support we have now to dry up.
Is anyone in the company nervous about this? Hackers can be a funny group, sometimes giving access even in a limited way can be enough to stave them off while an outright ban can draw attention. (See, PS3) NVidia allows people to use their hardware if they use the blob, AMD doesn't. Maybe that's enough of an argument to convince some skeptical suits?
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