[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] EPIA CLE266/Unichrome support

[Ivor Hewitt]

On Saturday 12 Feb 2005 20:21, Arpi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > Reza Jelveh writes:
> > > On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 20:46:31 +0000
> > >
> > > Ivor Hewitt <ivor at ivor.org> wrote:
> > > > What's the opinion on the unichrome/epia support for MPlayer? Is this
> > > > suitable for consideration for MPlayer CVS yet or does the patch need
> > > > to be reworked?
> > >
> > > personally id rather go for libddmpeg since that drops the X
> > > dependency. as a sidenote it was totally reversed and released as gpl
> > > code in case you worry about licensing.
> >
> > What do you mean by "reversed" here?  Reverse engineered?
>
> yes
>
Sigh. Yes the origial VIA libddmpeg was reverse engineered. I was the person 
who reverse engineered it.

VIA then went ahead and released a new version with a new interface which 
completely broke backwards compatibility.... 

Therefore the open source unichrome driver implementation has implemented 
acceleration as an extension of XvMC instead.  
This is what Mythtv takes advantage of - libddmpeg support was dropped some 
time ago. Similarly latest xine takes advantage of  the XvMC driver.

As for dropping the X dependency. All the code for the unichrome mpeg 
acceleration is open and available. It's not going to be impossible to 
produce non-X implementation it just requires someone who's interested in 
that to get involved.

Regards,

-- 
Ivor
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