There May Finally Be Better ATI Linux Video Playback

[snuwoods]

steam on linux FTW!!

how is this relevant?

[Mr James]

What improvements? Where? When?
I read the article and all I got is a history lesson.

If there is going to be any improvement, I'll believe it when I see it.

[RealNC]

how is this relevant?

It was meant to be sarcastic. With that being said: UT3 on linux ftw!

[cl333r]

Why not accelerate the video on ATI cards in shaders? Is it much worse than using UVD2/3?

[RealNC]

Why not accelerate the video on ATI cards in shaders?

This will be a Gallium3D state tracker. However, someone has to write the code. As of now, no one has.

[elanthis]

Why not accelerate the video on ATI cards in shaders? Is it much worse than using UVD2/3?

Yes, but the shader implementation would be far better than what we have now at least.

[marek]

This will be a Gallium3D state tracker. However, someone has to write the code. As of now, no one has.

Be first!

[RealNC]

I'd first need to study a "hello world" shader introduction. Then have a look at what accelerated video decoding actually is.

Will take a while

[bridgman]

This is probably not a bad place to start :

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/r600_demo/

I don't know if the code still works with the latest kernel drivers but reading through the code would probably still be useful.

[agd5f]

This will be a Gallium3D state tracker. However, someone has to write the code. As of now, no one has.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODgwOQ