[Kdenlive-devel] ffmpeg VDPO patch for h264 decoding

[Dan Dennedy]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:03 AM, Jean-Michel Pouré <jm at poure.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-12-14 at 21:33 -0800, Dan Dennedy wrote:
>> I believe all cards that support VDPAU and CUDA require PCI Express
>> x16. I do not have any computers that support that! My main
>> workstation is a dual Athlon 2000 from 2001, which was high end for
>> the time. It only has AGP, but it is still a decent desktop system by
>> even today's standards. I can not even locate a video card at a
>> physical retailer that carries cards for AGP! Last spring I built a
>> Quad Core system to mimic the setup of the a product I was helping to
>> develop for a commercial MLT user. It only supports up to x8 PCI
>> Express. I do have a MacBook Pro from my employer with an 8600M GT,
>> but it is not clear if it is supported. I have 64-bit Arch Linux
>> running on it, and I will see if I can get it working.
>
>
> I compiled yesterday night, it works super-fast.
> My laptop was bought for 450€ and has a GeForce 8400.
> Viewing the AVCHD file requires 10% computer power, nothing.

I got it working on my MacBook Pro, and I agree it is very nice. I
reviewed the API as well. It will take a lot of work to integrate it,
but we have the mplayer patch and MythTV's integration to learn from
it. Oh well, another thing to add to my ToDo list.

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