Originally posted by sturmflut
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The other point AFAIK was simply that XvMC had not been broadly adopted so it probably seemed like a good time to introduce a newer API. Unfortunately VA-API, VDPAU and XvBA were independently developed at more or less the same time, so we went from zero new APIs to three new APIs fairly quickly.
It's like when you see a part of town with no hotels... everyone recognizes the opportunity at the same time so you end up with three hotels and only enough customers to fill one of them
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