[MPlayer-cygwin] Does mplayer support DxVA?

[Sascha Sommer]

On Tuesday 21 September 2004 04:45, Joey Parrish wrote:
> 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?
>

winvidix is direct hardware access.
dxva is hardware decoding

Sascha