AMD's X-Video Bitstream Acceleration

news · October 29, 2008

At Phoronix we have posted a new article. A link to this from your

site's news section would be greatly appreciated.

Title: AMD's X-Video Bitstream Acceleration ( -at -) Phoronix

Summary: "In early September we shared that UVD2 and XvMC is coming to

Linux and that two new library files had begun shipping with the ATI

Catalyst driver: AMDXvBA and XvBAW. Earlier this month the Unified Video

Decoding 2 (UVD2) support was then enabled by default in the Catalyst

8.10 driver. These video acceleration improvements to the ATI Linux

driver aren't exactly end-user friendly yet, but today we have

information on how those interested can begin using the X-Video Motion

Compensation extension with their ATI hardware along with what the XvBA

extension will provide users in regards to advanced video acceleration

that is very similar to Microsoft's DirectX Video Acceleration."

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