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

[Alex Beregszaszi]

Hi,

I thought about this some months ago, without any following steps :)
Could you provide some infos about DX VA ? I'm interested in it.

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alex


<20020222145554.46738A07C at merkur.homelan.org>; from juergen.hammelmann at gmx.de on Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 03:55:53PM +0100
> 
> 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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