[MPlayer-cygwin] Does mplayer support DxVA?

[Joey Parrish]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 09:51:10PM +0000, Sascha Sommer wrote:
> On Monday 20 September 2004 19:43, Chhaya, Harshal wrote:
> > I had posted a similar question to the mplayer-users
> > group and figured that this might be a better place.
> > Sorry for the duplication.
> >
> > I have been trying to find information on h/w assisted video
> > decoding (mainly for HDTV playback) and found that some
> > video cards support DxVA (DirectX Video Acceleration) that
> > can help in video decoding. From what I have read, this is
> > a pretty standard interface (i.e. it is not specific to
> > any device) and supported by multiple video cards. And
> > it helps in DVD playback too.
> 
> Not yet. Send a patch ;)
> It is probably not so easy to implement, maybe we can emulate
> xvmc a bit. Is there a good documentation available?
> 
> > I can't find any reference to DxVA in mplayer docs. Is
> > winvidix the same as DxVA? Can mplayer use DxVA to off-load
> > some decoding tasks to the video card if the video card
> > supports it?
> 
> MPlayer does not support DxVA. Winvidix is another technique that
> accesses the video card directly. Winvidix is somewhat similar to directdraw.
> Most of the time it won't give you a performance improvement over directx. 

So is it hardware decoding or direct hardware access?

--Joey

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