XBMC's Thoughts On XvBA: AMD Catalyst Has Problems

news · June 21, 2012

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

site's news section would be greatly appreciated.

Title: XBMC's Thoughts On XvBA: AMD Catalyst Has Problems ( -at -) Phoronix

Summary: "It's not only NVIDIA with Linux problems that cause upstream

developers to publicly bash companies (i.e. Linus Torvalds calling

NVIDIA the worst company ever), but AMD has come under scrutiny too. The

developers of the popular cross-platform XBMC multimedia project shared

a little story about enthusiasm, hope, and disappointment. In this guest

posting by Peter FrÃ¼hberger on Phoronix, XvBA is what is principally

talked about, which is AMD's lead choice for video acceleration when

using their proprietary Catalyst driver. Unfortunately the XBMC

developers aren't too happy about the state of video acceleration using

AMD's Catalyst driver for Radeon graphics hardware, hence why they have

reached out to Phoronix with this rather lengthy public message. Whether

AMD even cares about Linux users and when XvBA will support missing

functionality are among their open questions for AMD."

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