XvMC 2.0?

[Kendall Bennett]

Hi Guys,

We have been doing some work to get motion compensation working on ATI 
hardware in our drivers, and have added some extensiosn to the XvMC 
interface to make the CPU side processing more efficient for ATI hardware 
on slow CPU boxes.

Once this project is complete we will want to submit the modified header 
files into the X.org tree, so it would probably be a good time to 
consider wrapping up a new XvMC 2.0 API specification. Lots of stuff was 
never completed in XvMC 1.0, such as the ability for the client app to be 
completely independent of which client side library needs to be used. The 
work Thomas Hellström has done on the XvMC Wrapper library provides a 
clean solution for this part of the problem.

There is also the VLD support that Thomas built for the Unichrome project 
that might be nice to get standardised as well.

Finally we could consider whether we want to add network transparency to 
the XvMC API, as well as find a mechanism so that the XvMC client apps do 
not need to run as root like the I810 sample driver does (I am not sure 
about the Unichrome client libraries).

Any takers to help work on this?

Regards,

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Kendall Bennett
Chief Executive Officer
SciTech Software, Inc.
Phone: (530) 894 8400
http://www.scitechsoft.com

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