VC5 OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Advancing

[starshipeleven]

IMO, it is probably the lack of control over the hardware video codec block.

That's irrelevant. The VPU (or hardware decode engine) is unrelated to the GPU. On PC you have accelerators physically into the GPUs, but they are still technically independent from it for the most part.

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That's irrelevant. The VPU (or hardware decode engine) is unrelated to the GPU. On PC you have accelerators physically into the GPUs, but they are still technically independent from it for the most part.

I understand this, but I would expect the foundation to pretty much want a drop in replacement. Especially with media playback (using Kodi) as one of the more consumer driven markets of the PI.

As far as I have tried Kodi refuses to run under the new driver. I guess I am assuming but my thoughts were that this missing functionality is linked to the HVS support.