Author Topic: Broadcom Crystal HD - Hardware Decoder BCM970012 - PCIe Mini Card  (Read 4459 times)

nite_man

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Hi,

Broadcom Crystal HD looks a good alternative to VDPAU. The card is cheap ~ $24 on eBay and allows to playback HD content on non-VDPAU hardware. XBMC already supports Broadcom, drivers for Linux exists and will be included into kernel soon. MythTV team is also working to support it. So, when Xine will add support of Broadcom Crystal HD we'll able to use it in LinuxMCE as well.

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Re: Broadcom Crystal HD - Hardware Decoder BCM970012 - PCIe Mini Card
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2010, 08:02:25 pm »
Discussion re supporting this card is ongoing on both xine and mplayer irc channels.

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Re: Broadcom Crystal HD - Hardware Decoder BCM970012 - PCIe Mini Card
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2010, 09:14:31 pm »
So, that means we'll have support of Broadcom Crystal HD in the both Xine and Mplayer :)
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Re: Broadcom Crystal HD - Hardware Decoder BCM970012 - PCIe Mini Card
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2010, 10:36:41 pm »
To soon to say bit it looks like they Will implement support in the long run.
I try to dig some and see what i can come up with.
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