[mythtvnz] VLC and VDPAU

[Brett Miller]

Don't think it's VDPAU directly..this would make it nVidia only with 
only low level driver.
The idea is to use VA-API layer so this could work with more hardware.
Also allows others apps to use GPU processing without building in direct 
low level drivers.
Disclaimer: This could be wrong.

Where does fit with openCL, CUDA & openGL & ATI's firestarter ??

Have read (& not understood much) on mplayer & VLC forums etc..
that OpenCL is not intended, so much for real time video, but to be an 
API layer on CUDA (& the ATI version).
This could also be wrong...

If ffmpeg sorted out the GPU processing for transcoding this would be a 
truly enormous step forward for all the other apps that use it.
Maybe the transcoding & real-time video decoding could be dealt with in 
different ways on the GPU.
Very big undertaking & of course it all has to be written in C..


On 28/03/2010 11:21 p.m., Tortise wrote:
> It might interest some list members that it seems vdpau is coming to VLC 1.1 - which might not be too far away.
>
> http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2010/01/31/VLC-and-GPU-decoding-on-linux-aka-Re%3A-Welcome-to-the-Thicket
>
> {Sorry if this is old news however I've not seen any one reference this in the context of mythtv}
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