2008-12-13, 09:18
mythmaster Wrote:I wouldn't necessarily call myself a programmer either, but I do "get it". That's the first I've heard of OpenCL, thanks. It does look pretty promising.
The OpenCL spec was only just released and instead of being vendor specific it has buy-in from MANY vendors. Checkout the Slashdot article and comments that were posted within the last week about it - some of the comments posted were pretty good.
As for OpenCL vs VDPAU - VDPAU is NVIDIA specific and I've seen comments that seem to indicate that things like video overlays might be a problem when using OpenGL with it. It also seems to be profile specific which stinks if your video doesn't match their specs. OpenCL is a little more open ended and works across many platforms. I will agree that OpenCL doesn't appear to be video specific - except that they have specifically mentioned OpenGL-> "efficient interoperability with OpenGL, OpenGL ES and other graphics APIs." Now will that mean OpenGL speedups? Dunno' but if we get anything from it that's some help IMO. I guess we'll see. Meanwhile I am trying to keep watch on the ffmpeg and mPlayer forums to get a better handle on VDAPU speedups since I happen to like NVIDIA hardware In any case I just want to see us get soem video accleration