[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] VIA hardware support in MPlayer

[Ivor Hewitt]

> Hi all,
>
> That's probably a worthless announcement, but did anyone here had a
> look at the patch that VIA did against MPlayer-pre5 to support VIA
> hardware?
> Ok, we all agree that this version is _really old_, and that VIA would
> have been better of contributing to Unichrome rather than forking
> MPlayer...
> Anyway, here's the link for their patch: http://sourceforge.net/projects/vemp/
>
> Regards,
> Guillaume
>
The via patch simply provides support for their proprietary binary mpeg
interface. A better route would be to add support for the completely open
source unichrome interface.

The patch for that has been submitted to this list several times already.

Cheers,
Ivor.