2011-01-22, 18:34
Hi,
I was trying to read up on videotoolbox as news of the great xbmc app and it's discovery seems to allude to more decoding (and encoding) on video card.
Wikipedia says:
"The most common API's for GPU accelerated video decoding are DxVA for Microsoft Windows operating-system, and VDPAU, VAAPI, XvMC, and XvBA for Linux and UNIX based operating-system.
All except XvMC are capable of decoding videos encoded with MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 ASP (MPEG-4 Part 2), MPEG-4 AVC (H.264 / DivX 6), VC-1, WMV3/WMV9, Xvid / OpenDivX (DivX 4), and DivX 5 codecs, while XvMC is only capable of decoding MPEG-1 and MPEG-2."
Does this mean further graphic acceleration (beyond h.264) is going to be looked into for the mac xbmc or is this not relevant or my understanding is messed up.
Just to clarify my position (sat at computer): I not requesting this i'm just interested as to what it could mean for mac.
Well done on it tho, very impressive!
Go XBMC!
I was trying to read up on videotoolbox as news of the great xbmc app and it's discovery seems to allude to more decoding (and encoding) on video card.
Wikipedia says:
"The most common API's for GPU accelerated video decoding are DxVA for Microsoft Windows operating-system, and VDPAU, VAAPI, XvMC, and XvBA for Linux and UNIX based operating-system.
All except XvMC are capable of decoding videos encoded with MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 ASP (MPEG-4 Part 2), MPEG-4 AVC (H.264 / DivX 6), VC-1, WMV3/WMV9, Xvid / OpenDivX (DivX 4), and DivX 5 codecs, while XvMC is only capable of decoding MPEG-1 and MPEG-2."
Does this mean further graphic acceleration (beyond h.264) is going to be looked into for the mac xbmc or is this not relevant or my understanding is messed up.
Just to clarify my position (sat at computer): I not requesting this i'm just interested as to what it could mean for mac.
Well done on it tho, very impressive!
Go XBMC!