RFC: Video decode acceleration API
Bian, Jonathan
jonathan.bian at intel.com
Mon Apr 2 14:01:02 PDT 2007
This is geared toward fixed function video decode pipelines, which is
supported by a number of hardware implementations from Intel, Via,
NVidia and ATI.
-----Original Message-----
From: Matthias Hopf [mailto:mhopf at suse.de]
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 9:37 AM
To: Bian, Jonathan
Cc: Stephane Marchesin; Roderick Colenbrander; Donlon, Mike;
xorg at lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Video decode acceleration API
On Mar 28, 07 13:48:28 -0700, Bian, Jonathan wrote:
> A lot of current (and future) graphics chipsets (discrete or
integrated)
> have fixed function pipelines for video decode. Lack of a common
Which future ones are you talking about?
I don't know *any* one that doesn't support fragment shader
functionality.
Designing a completely new API for dying hardware seems like a dead
wrong approach to me.
Matthias
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