Holy Crap! You Can Use XvMC With ATI Gallium3D!

[89c51]

Good news everyone! Looks like the VDPAU and XVMC state trackers are going to be merged to master this evening!

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archive...ne/008008.html

which codecs work/will work with this ???

[pejakm]

Good news everyone! Looks like the VDPAU and XVMC state trackers are going to be merged to master this evening!

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2011-June/008008.html

[HokTar]

it would be nice to have h.246 and VP8 acceleration at some point without having to rely on the GPU decoding hardware

That is exactly Christians' goal. (h264)
Veerappan (Phoronix member - see this thread) is working on an opencl vp8 decoder so we would need clover to move along. Unfortunately, Zack Rusin is not working on it at the moment.

[89c51]

ok thanks

it would be nice to have h.246 and VP8 acceleration at some point without having to rely on the GPU decoding hardware

[HokTar]

what video formats/codecs are supported by pipe-video ????

As far as I know this branch contains the video layer for gallium (g3dvl) so it can accelerate xvmc.
There is also an initial commit for the vdpau state tracker.

Note that it has none of the work done by Christian Konig! Hopefully after this merge his commits will land soon.

and it will have to be "presented" to the applications in order to use it right??

I think the players simply need to support the decoder, i.e. xvmc or vdpau, so ideally it will work out-of-the-box with mplayer, etc.

[89c51]

FYI Corbin wants to merge pipe-video to master which seems promising.

Also, Christian refreshed his git repo recently so he is still hard at work.

what video formats/codecs are supported by pipe-video ????

and it will have to be "presented" to the applications in order to use it right??

[edgar_wibeau]

Sounds great, thanks for the info!

And please keep us up-to-date, at least if there's no new article on this topic at phoronix.

[HokTar]

FYI Corbin wants to merge pipe-video to master which seems promising.

Also, Christian refreshed his git repo recently so he is still hard at work.

[edgar_wibeau]

Hello HokTar,

yes I'm very interested and I've not heard anything about this topic since, well, last year. Do you/ does anybody know what's going on? I'm watching X.Org RadeonFeature for a long time now, but the only thing that's constant is the shader CoDecs being "WIP" for (feels like) two billion years now. Unfortunately my skills don't surpass shell coding (by a noticeable margin), otherwise I'd have done all the work myself

I know AMD has opened up their XvBA stuff, but that's hardly a solution for open saucers and UVD stays tightly locked up for us :-( Plus, it doesn't do any good when it comes to ENcoding, nor when CoDecs are to be used, which UVD/2/3 has no (or little) hardware for.

[HokTar]

If anybody is interested Christian just announced that iDCT is implemented and is working for him with r600g. He also noted that it still needs some work, but I hope that it will be merged to master soon.

After that hopefully h264 will come! That will be the real win.

As Alex noted in his reply:
Nice work!