AMD Ontario / Bobcat / Llano and H.264

[tball]

Or maybe via OpenCL.
Or via AVX instructions in a near future...

Well we have mpeg2 acceleration through a xvmc gallium3d backend, using the tgsi shader language.

[highlandsun]

Well we have mpeg2 acceleration through a xvmc gallium3d backend, using the tgsi shader language.

Really? Cool, how long has that been available? What drivers and devices does it work with?

[tball]

Really? Cool, how long has that been available? What drivers and devices does it work with?

It should work for the softpipe and r300g driver. I haven't tried it myself though, so can't comment on its usability. You have to fetch the pipe-video branch of the mesa repo, but that branch might be kinda old in all other aspects.

[mattst88]

It should work for the softpipe and r300g driver. I haven't tried it myself though, so can't comment on its usability. You have to fetch the pipe-video branch of the mesa repo, but that branch might be kinda old in all other aspects.

No, it doesn't work yet.