[MPlayer-dev-eng] Discussion: integration of DirectX VA API/DLL's in mplayer possible?

[Juergen Hammelmann]

Hi,

I'm looking for a way to improve system speed/performance at playing dvd's, 
mpeg's in linux. mplayer is a great work... but could be much more better
with implementing support for hardware acceleration for motion compensation 
like for ATI cards (I have a Radeon VE).
Because of hardware motion compensation is closed code, and this situation 
will not change in near future, maybe, and I don't want to break legal 
rights, one way would be to use the new windows dll's
for DirectX VA (Video Acceleration) and implement a layer in mplayer to 
support these dll's. This has to be done similar to the windows video codecs, 
I think so...

What do you think about this? Would this be unpossible?

This way we can get hardware support of every producer of graphic cards...

Ciao, Jürgen

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