New Intel Video XvMC Driver Branch

[phoronix]

Phoronix: New Intel Video XvMC Driver Branch

Intel's Zhenyu Wang has announced the creation of the "xvmc" branch in the xf86-video-intel driver. This new branch features code clean-ups relating to X-Video Motion Compensation (XvMC) and a new framework that will support greater hardware media decoding functionality in the future...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NjI2Ng

[Redeeman]

any information regarding possible H264 and VC-1 hardware decoding help?

[teroedni]

Phoronix should do a test on the newest driver to see how it compares to competing closed and opensource driver from Amd and Nvidia.

That would have been very interesting

[yoshi314]

this was just announced. new branch does not equal new instant functionality.

let's wait till devs get some new code in place.

[teroedni]

ohh

So this is features that not have emerged yet.
Well i hope proronix will do a test once it is released

[Michael]

Originally Posted by teroedni

ohh

So this is features that not have emerged yet.
Well i hope proronix will do a test once it is released

Well, the new branch is out there, but the new framework for supporting other types of media isn't taken advantage of yet, etc...

[Gamester17]

I hope that Intel will implement sopport for the new VaAPI (Video Acceleration API) in their open source Linux device drivers soon as well
http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6798

...and that other GPU manufacturers (ATI/AMD, NVIDIA, and VIA) will follow suit