[Openchrome-users] cn400 and mpeg4

[Chad]

On 4/6/06, Wander Winkelhorst <w.winkelhorst at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/6/06, Chad <masterclc at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 4/3/06, Kafu <kanonenfutter at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > I monitor the progress of the openchrome driver since its split-off from
> > > unichrome. Last year Ivor wrote on the list that he started realizing
> > > hw-mpeg4 support for the cn400 chipset. How far is the progress concerning
> > > mpeg4 or was the developement stopped due to difficulties?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Henning
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> >
> > Just so you know someone out here does hear you, I'm under the
> > impression mpeg4 acceleration is still not ready; but that's just from
> > what I've gathered around the net, so I could be wrong.
> >
> > Chad
>
> From what I've seen, is that mpeg4 hardware decoding is supported by
> VeXP and VeMP (http://sourceforge.net/projects/viaexp/ and
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/vemp/)
>
> but it's allso not worth trying to get those to work, as they only
> seem to work for those distributions allso supported by the binary VIA
> drivers, so that is:
>
> Fedora core 1
> Redhat 9.0
> and
> Mandrake 9.2
>
> I tried them on Debian unstable and all I managed to do is make
> segfaults and waste my time.
>
> Regards
> Wander
>

I was able to get the Via drivers from Via working on a Gentoo system,
but I preferred the Openchrome way as it seemed more along the lines
of how linux works, where the Via option seemed to me to be more of
something Windows would do.

Chad