Hi,
I'm really excited about the latest developments and the work that AMD and Nvidia are doing to bring better driver support on our favorite platform! ( http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_180_vdpau&num=1 (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_180_vdpau&num=1))
This really excites me coz it means HD video doesn't have to bring the CPU to its knees anymore. I really hoped AMD would be first to market with a driver that has a similar feature parity to its Windows version, ever since they released specs for some of their GPUs and are much more OSS friendly, sadly that hasn't been the case - we still don't have good support for the AMD GPUs in LMCE and Desktop linux generally.
Haven't seen anything about Xine support but at-least Nvidia has a MPlayer patch - which is promising.
Will be patching my mplayer to see what effect it has on my MediaDirector
Go Nvidia, go AMD - let see who wins the race
regards,
Sam
For this to be ultimately useful to us, both Xine_Playe and Mplayer need to be patched.
-Thom