Video Support Still Brewing For GLAMOR Acceleration

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Video Support Still Brewing For GLAMOR Acceleration

Video acceleration support for the GLAMOR library, the open-source way of accelerating 2D X.Org operations via the 3D engine, is still coming and is being worked on by a student this summer...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTQxMjM

[droidhacker]

Phoronix: Video Support Still Brewing For GLAMOR Acceleration

Video acceleration support for the GLAMOR library, the open-source way of accelerating 2D X.Org operations via the 3D engine, is still coming and is being worked on by a student this summer...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTQxMjM

Now hold on just a minute... I'm not getting the impression that this is a UVD vs XV situation, rather that this work is in the area of POST PROCESSING. UVD doesn't do post processing, UVD is decode plain and simple. Its output needs to be fed through something that does the rest of the work -- scaling, color conversion, adjustments, deinterlacing, etc.

[smitty3268]

Now hold on just a minute... I'm not getting the impression that this is a UVD vs XV situation, rather that this work is in the area of POST PROCESSING. UVD doesn't do post processing, UVD is decode plain and simple. Its output needs to be fed through something that does the rest of the work -- scaling, color conversion, adjustments, deinterlacing, etc.

The VDPAU API includes all that, so it's a VDPAU vs XV situation.