AMD's UVD2-based XvBA Finally Does Something On Linux

[news 28]

At Phoronix we have posted a new article. A link to this from your

site's news section would be greatly appreciated.

 

Title: AMD's UVD2-based XvBA Finally Does Something On Linux ( -at -) Phoronix

Direct Link: http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=14340

Summary: "For a year now we have been talking about XvBA, which stands

for X-Video Bitstream Acceleration and is designed to implement AMD's

Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD2) engine on Linux systems for improving the

video decoding and playback process on desktop systems. AMD has been

shipping an XvBA library with their ATI Catalyst Linux driver since last

year, but they have yet to release any documentation on the XvBA API or

any patches to implement the support within any Linux media players.

Heck, AMD has not even officially confirmed XvBA with Phoronix being the

lone source of information for the past year. Today though, XvBA has

finally become useful under Linux. But it is not what you may be

thinking..."

 

Please feel free to contact us with any questions or comments you may