XVideo support in xf86-video-nv / G90

René Rebe rene at exactcode.de
Tue Feb 24 00:12:38 PST 2009


Aaron Plattner wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 09:26:11AM -0800, Henry-Nicolas Tourneur wrote:
>   
>> I would like to know if there are any plans to add XVideo support for G90
>> cards to the nvidia free 2D driver.
>>     
>
> I'm afraid not.  XV on those GPUs requires the 3D engine, and setting that
> up is too complicated to be within the scope of that driver.
>   
Which are just other words for "we do not want open source guys to know how
to do that", hm?

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