Xgl/Xegl future?

[Ian Romanick]

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Matthias Hopf wrote:
> On Aug 25, 05 23:05:04 -0400, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>>On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 18:30 +0200, Matthias Hopf wrote:
>>
>>>Yes, but as soon as we want an abstraction layer (in this case OpenGL),
>>>this isn't easily accessible, as several hardware vendors chose to not
>>>convert YUV to RGB on PutImage, but during scanout (using color keying
>>>for selecting the YUV framebuffer).
>>
>>We're not talking about overlays (which will be little use with
>>compositing) but about using the 3D engine to do the colourspace
>>conversion and scaling.
> 
> I was talking about that there is no common interface for YUV to RGB
> conversion using the graphics hardware.  Thus we should do this with
> pixel shader, which *is* a common interface that is capable of doing
> this. We can have other implementations if the hardware doesn't support
> pixel shader, but this will be our first try.

But don't you really want to be able to use 422 source images?  Pixel
shaders won't help there.
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