[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]Remove xvmc_acceleration if favor of hw_acceleration

Måns Rullgård mans
Thu Jan 8 16:24:22 CET 2009


Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 03:21:24PM +0200, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
>> On 1/7/09, Reimar D?ffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
>> > Why is that an issue? Because it gets confusing as hell if someone
>> > actually does add hardware decoding, do we name the next enum then
>>
>> And what do you think the actual hardware decoding would be doing?
>
> Actually decode? I can see why it was named like that earlier but the
> assumption that hardware decoding will always go directly to the display
> and thus "hardware decoding" means the actual decoding will be in the
> display code is no longer justified IMO.

In a sense, any decoding is done by hardware: the CPU.

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