[FFmpeg-cvslog] Deprecate obsolete XvMC hardware decoding support

[Ivan Kalvachev]

On 11/14/13, Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 03:27:36AM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
>> ffmpeg | branch: master | Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> | Tue Nov  5
>> 08:16:31 2013 +0100| [19e30a58fc8ee6187a0bc14aff7f566a13c81421] |
>> committer: Diego Biurrun
>>
>> Deprecate obsolete XvMC hardware decoding support
>>
>> XvMC has long ago been superseded by newer acceleration APIs, such as
>> VDPAU, and few downstreams still support it.
>
> For AMD binary drivers it is still the only official API for any kind of
> acceleration I believe. Admittedly for me it only works under valgrind due
> to
> some memory management bugs.
> Still, I'd put my vote in for keeping it supported a while longer, I
> doubt some old cards will ever see they hardware acceleration being
> ported to VDPAU or similar...

You have my support too.

I still intend to maintain the code, even if I can't do it on short notice.

The last release of Catalyst 13.4 should work properly with XvMC.
Unfortunately it does not support Xorg 1.14 or newers and I made
mistake to upgrade Xorg.