FFmpeg Finally Retires XvMC Hardware Acceleration Code

[skeevy420]

There was an X extension called X-Video? Wow. I wonder if, with naming everything Xthis and Xthat, it occurred to anybody that these things might one day be sharing a name with something pornographic.

All the K's in KDE project names is them showing allegiance to the KKK.

[Myownfriend]

A single "x" has never meant anything pornographic. Triple "x" on the other hand means exactly that. Not sure if it was meant to be a lame joke or what.

Not really a joke nor am I saying they were dumb for using the name. I was just wondering if the creators of X-video would have been shocked to find out that there would later be a popular porn website with a really similar name. The site is literally called XVideos. It's literally only off by just one letter and shares the same capitalization and everything.

Also the reason XXX became associated with porn was because of the X rating given to movies with adult content. It didn't exclusively mean the film was pornographic but pornographers put the X rating on their own movies then later they started using more Xs to emphasize how adult they were. So, yea, a single X was associated with porn going back to the 70s.

[brad0]

There was an X extension called X-Video? Wow. I wonder if, with naming everything Xthis and Xthat, it occurred to anybody that these things might one day be sharing a name with something pornographic.

*facepalm*

[birdie]

There was an X extension called X-Video? Wow. I wonder if, with naming everything Xthis and Xthat, it occurred to anybody that these things might one day be sharing a name with something pornographic.

A single "x" has never meant anything pornographic. Triple "x" on the other hand means exactly that. Not sure if it was meant to be a lame joke or what.

[Myownfriend]

There was an X extension called X-Video? Wow. I wonder if, with naming everything Xthis and Xthat, it occurred to anybody that these things might one day be sharing a name with something pornographic.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: FFmpeg Finally Retires XvMC Hardware Acceleration Code

Long before the likes of VA-API and VDPAU for GPU video playback acceleration on Linux, there was X-Video and X-Video Motion Compensation (XvMC). Finally in 2022 the widely-used FFmpeg multimedia library has decided to drop that XvMC hardware acceleration code...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FFmpeg-Drops-XvMC