Do ATI hardware and drivers support XVideo output? NVidia still does not support this in their GF8 line and its a feature that I don't want to do without. It seems a little smoother than Opengl output during video playback.
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ATI's video acceleration method of choice is TexturedVideo. TexturedVideo does use the 3D capabilities on the card to accelerate video playback and it does use the X-Video extension. Though right now some people are running into video playback problems, it should be sorted out in 8.42 (or 8.43).Michael Larabel
https://www.michaellarabel.com/
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Originally posted by dramac View PostDo ATI hardware and drivers support XVideo output? NVidia still does not support this in their GF8 line and its a feature that I don't want to do without. It seems a little smoother than Opengl output during video playback.
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Ah, I see. It isn't that I need hardware accelerated decoding of mpeg2/h264. Xvideo smooths the video and eliminates aliasing which is really what I need on a high res LCD display. I didn't mean to confuse that with xvmc. My understanding is that the GF8 series supports this (xvideo) in hardware, as previous generations do, but the drivers have yet to enable it. It looks like good things are ahead for ATI and gnu/linux, especially in regard to drivers.
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Originally posted by dramac View PostAh, I see. It isn't that I need hardware accelerated decoding of mpeg2/h264. Xvideo smooths the video and eliminates aliasing which is really what I need on a high res LCD display. I didn't mean to confuse that with xvmc. My understanding is that the GF8 series supports this (xvideo) in hardware, as previous generations do, but the drivers have yet to enable it. It looks like good things are ahead for ATI and gnu/linux, especially in regard to drivers.
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