[Mesa-dev] GSoC : Video decoding state tracker for Gallium3d

[Alex Deucher]

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Plus, on AMD hardware at least, on
>> r1xx-r5xx asics we didn't have UVD so we used the 3D engine for video
>> decode and it worked well, even on mobile asics.
>
> I presume that r100 and r200 aren't capable of decoding WebM/H264, but
> what about r300-r500? Are they capable-enough, enough to be
> worthwhile?

Probably, at least MC and maybe idct.

Alex