RFC: Video decode acceleration API

[Jerome Glisse]

On 4/2/07, Stephane Marchesin <marchesin at icps.u-strasbg.fr> wrote:
> Bian, Jonathan wrote:
> > This is geared toward fixed function video decode pipelines, which is
> > supported by a number of hardware implementations from Intel, Via,
> > NVidia and ATI.
> >
> >
>
> What cards from nvidia are you talking about ? The video decoding
> pipeline on those has disappeared during the geforce 6x00 era. I hear
> the same happened on ATI.
>
> Stephane
>

I believe there are starting to put again such things, i read somewhere that
vista keep pixel shader too busy for letting them properly decode video, thus
in the next generation card ATI likely put back a dedicated video decoder:

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/03/16/r600_family_has_independent_video_processor/

I think i did read somethings similar for nv g80 or latter card...

best,
Jerome Glisse