[MPlayer-dev-eng] Why no default modern disc playback support?, i.e. Blu-Ray/HD

[e-t172]

Igor a écrit :
>> I guess we'll have to wait for performance improvements in ffh264/ffvc1, 
>> or PureVideo/Avivo support in ffmpeg. On Windows it is possible to 
>> implement GPU acceleration using the Video Acceleration component of 
>> DirectX (but as far as I know, no ffmpeg developer is working on this 
>> ATM) ; on Linux however, due to the lack of driver support, this is not 
>> possible yet - but recent developments such as AMD/ATI releasing 
>> specifications for their recent GPUs makes me think this is going to change.
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> and what about API for video hardware acceleration under Linux ? is it API exist ?
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Yes. http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/vaapi

However, I don't know anything about the status of this project.

There is also xvmc, which is already usable with mplayer, but it can 
only handle MPEG-2 streams. Very few HD is released in MPEG-2. Most HD 
streams are H.264 or VC-1.

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