Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
From: Delaware, USA
>I don't know, but Gallium3D seems to be a prerequisite for supporting UVD via VDPAU:
That I wasn't aware of. So two foreign packages required, Gallium3D and VDPAU.
That explains the resistance to gpu assisted decoding.
Importing more code from the UNIX/Linux world? I don't like the idea either.
And the entire video driver library would have to be rewritten or replaced.
"Never attribute to malice what can more readily explained by incompetence"