[MPlayer-users] -vc ffh264vdpau uses xvmc?

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Oliver Seitz <info <at> vtnd.de> writes:

> > [VD_FFMPEG] XVMC-accelerated MPEG-2.
> >
> > Why is XVMC involved? Is that expected? And is ffh264vdpau still needed?
> 
> I got this message from the VAAPI-patched mplayer, too. I've read that 
> as "Enabled acceleration using a headline which dates back to a time 
> when only MPEG-2 was accelerated, and only by XVMC."

This interpretation is 100% correct.
(Patch welcome.)

Carl Eugen