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Hello all,

This is my first question to this forum. So, please be gentle if I am doing something wrong Cool

I have an application which runs on openembedded system and the computer has a AMD Radeon HD 6800 series graphics card. I use this machine for only decoding purpose and I use libav (ffmpeg) for decoding h264 frames. I would want to add hardware acceleration since the CPU usage is jumping to 100% from time to time and one can see some visible artifacts. I googled how to enable hardware acceleration and somehow I found myself registering to this forum Smile Could someone guide me how I can enable the hardware acceleration on my system? What drivers+packages need to be installed? Before all, please let me know if this forum is not the correct place to ask this question. If so, please redirect me to a correct one.

Thanks.
You need to use XVBA acceleration. The SDK can be found here: http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media...001.tar.gz
An implementation within xbmc can be found here: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=116996

Alternatively: You could try OpenCL with the amd App SDK.