2010-12-16, 23:57
HwyXingFrog Wrote:So, who is giving Boxee the drivers to do GPU Acceleration for 1080p?
The Nvidia drivers that XBMC Live uses aren't open source either, aren't they proprietary. Either way they do work awesome.
I don't really care that Intel's drivers aren't open sourced (as I LOVE Nvidia), I care that they are closed source AND unavailable. Boxee is able to get Linux drivers from Intel, but they are not available to the general public.
The whole thing for years with Intel (since about GMA 915) was that their drivers sucked, but at least they were open. Sometimes they barely worked, but they came with your favorite Linux distro and they gave you basically functionality without pain.
You are right Nvidia has closed drivers- but they work hard to keep them relevant. Nvidia is constantly worked to keep up with new changes in Xorg with frequent releases. Intel on the other hand dropped a VAAPI driver for one of its licensed PowerVR design once that only works with one version of Ubuntu tweaked the right way. Intel is closed and mostly incomparable, which translates to useless.