AMD Is Releasing Open-Source UVD Video Support

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AMD Is Releasing Open-Source UVD Video Support

02 April 2013, 07:20 PM

Phoronix: AMD Is Releasing Open-Source UVD Video Support

Within the next few hours AMD will be publishing open-source driver code that exposes their Unified Video Decoder (UVD) engine on modern Radeon HD graphics cards. This will finally allow open-source graphics drivers to take advantage of hardware-accelerated video decoding. Read more details in this Phoronix exclusive.

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02 April 2013, 07:24 PM

Impressed. Now us moaners will only complain about PM.
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02 April 2013, 07:25 PM

Nice try

but you missed it by one day!
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02 April 2013, 07:30 PM

This is huge!
Thanks for making it possible.
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