[mythtvnz] Fwd: [mythtv] New Video Decode and Presentation API

[Steven Ellis]

On 17/11/2008, at 12:40 AM, Steve Hodge wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 11:46 PM,  <banksie at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
>> Quoting Steven Ellis <steven at openmedia.co.nz>:
>>
>>> At the moment the best way to test is with MPlayer. Might be a while
>>> before we see MythTV patches.
>>
>>  Would we need MythTV patches? Myth can be configured to use ffmpeg  
>> as its
>> decoder and if that is patched (which the nVidia release says they  
>> have patched)
>> then surely that would do all the heavy lifting for Myth? Or am I  
>> missing something?
>
> I believe Myth doesn't link to ffmpeg directly, it has an internal
> copy (which is modified). So Myth will need to be synched to the new
> version of ffmpeg (once that project adopts the nVidia patches) or the
> nVidia patches need to be applied to the local copy. How long it takes
> all depends on how large and invasive nVidia's changes are.
>

Plus I'd expect to see some preference changes to enable/disapbe VDPAU  
support in the same way you can currently select XVMC, OpenGL etc.

Steve

Steven Ellis - Technical Director
OpenMedia Limited
email   - steven at openmedia.co.nz
website - http://www.openmedia.co.nz

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