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

[Guillaume Poirier]

Hi,

On 4/25/05, Ivor Hewitt <ivor at ivor.org> wrote:
> > 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/

> 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.

What is the status of the hardware support? Does it compete with their
binary drivers?
What's new now that VIA released their source code?


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

Did it get merged into MPlayer's CVS?
If not, well, that's sad... A great deal of people building mini-itx
based divx box use that kind of hardware.

Cheers,
Guillaume