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Almost all Android devices since Android 2.3.3 have a DSP that can also accelerate VP8.

See under "Systems with dedicated VP8 support" on this page:
http://wiki.webmproject.org/hardware/arm-socs

VP8 support is specified as part of the Android Multimedia framework since Android 2.3.3.

See Table 1. Core media format and codec support:...

This is another comment with which I agree entirely. Programming specs in and of themselves are not IP, but I suppose they might possibly reveal some trade secret (some aspect of hardware design),...

I guess this was what I was trying to say, but expressed far better. :o

I would just like to re-iterate here on the last paragraph above. I managed to express my frustration that the seemingly...

AFAIK lightspark can use VDPAU:

http://lightspark.github.com/

It is clear, however, the lightspark has some way to go before it can be considered a reasonable implementation of flash: ...

Header files reflect the software interface to software libraries and other software ... they don't disclose the design nor the code of the libraries themselves. They merely allow other software to...

Doesn't answer the question. AMD have apparently "seen the light" and taken some steps towards releasing programming specifications (which is not IP, according to the law) for some features of their...

I can see a reason why releasing programming information about UVD might have been a problem due to the presence of DRM within the GPUs, and hence the likelihood of associated legal NDAs and other...

FTA:

So who is going to update the Xorg wiki RadeonFeature page? http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature

The Feature Matrix for Free Radeon Drivers currently still says that the feature "Video...

Please understand ... if you write your own code, it is your code. You may license it however you please, and there is absolutely no problem with this. If you include some LGPL libraries to help,...

FOSS simply doesn't want closed-source anything. If you want to write closed source and charge end users for it ... go away, FOSS wants nothing from you and you may not use FOSS's code.

FOSS is...

The GPL license is not meant to be attractive for developers. You have a fundamental misconception here. The GPL license is inteded to give freedom to end users, and most decidedly not to make it...

You make a fundamental error in your assumptions here. The GPL is NOT about freedom for developers, it is about freedom for users of the software, and keeping it free (i.e. preventing any downstream...

Yes, but still, that total number is still very small compared to the number whose every need is well satisfied by the wide variety of excellent open source software available to Linux distributions....

Out of date. Ubuntu alone will ship on 5% of desktop machines this year.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-Will-Ship-on-5-of-PCs-Worldwide-268264.shtml

Granted. No problem.

The one caveat is to note that the phrase "a lot of specialised software keeping people away" applies only to relatively few people. "A lot of specialised software" could...

I'm sorry, but no.

For most uses, say for over 90% of the userbase, the desktop software for Linux is perfectly adequate. The rare professional might need something more, but if the average user...

There is no lack of important killer apps:

Photoshop => GIMP (2.8 with single-window mode GUI), or Krita (for raster graphics creation) plus digikam (for photographic manipulation)...

For playing videos on my home entertainment system, I use a media player, namely this one:
http://wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=330

Like most embedded devices, this is a Linux machine,...

In my family of four, we each have a personal computer (laptop or netbook). None of them are used for games. There is also a Playstation, which is no longer used for games (grown out of it).

All...