[MPlayer-dev-eng] VIA Mplayer fork

[Ivor Hewitt]

On Monday 07 Feb 2005 13:37, Jiri Svoboda wrote:
>
> Let me ask some questions about CLE266 support (current and in
> development)... And current state of drivers

If you're asking about the open source unichrome driver functionality versus 
the VIA binary driver support rather than MPlayer support then the unichrome 
mailing list is the best place to discuss this.

> 1) Framebuffer support (not X based) - is there hw accel for decoding of
> mpeg(4) available for framebuffer (directfb, svgalib...)?
> -As of today all I've seen was X based only
> Brief look at "new" via driver: VIA has framebuffer support via new driver
>
Correct, and the focus for the unichrome driver development has been to 
provide X, XV and XVMC support. However, the sources and sample code for the 
unichrome driver are open and available, all that's required is for someone 
with directfb experience to make the link.

> 2) MPEG4/divx hw decoding support (I do not count hw color
> conversion&overlay) - is there any?
> -As of today only mpeg2 is supported
> Brief look at "new" via driver: readme says that some mpeg4 support is
> available in their drivers
>
Since VIA hasn't released any specs or documentation for the mpeg4 
interface.... and as to date there are no shipping retail CN400 boards... and 
non of the open source unichrome developers have been provided with any 
hardware. Yes you are correct currently only the VIA binary drivers support 
MPEG4 accelleration. However we are about to get a CN400 based board in the 
next few days and the first project is to implement the MPEG4 support.

>
> May I ask somebody to correct me :-)
>


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