[mythtv] MythUI OSD branch and the way forward

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

On 23/03/2010 20:51, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 08:46:48PM +0000, Simon Kenyon wrote:
>> On 03/23/10 04:04, Mark Kendall wrote:
>>> On linux VDPAU will handle the rendering basics well enough but in the
>>> future we may want to use OpenGL rendering directly. Any VDPAU capable
>>> card also has sufficient OpenGL horsepower.
>> what about people who have ATI graphics?
>
> I just feel sorry for them, given the pathetically sad drivers they have
> to deal with. :(
>

When I bought my perfectly good ATI card, NVidia plain refused to deal
with anyone in the open source community, nor would they entertain the
notion of releasing functioning drivers for the linux platform.

As such the open source ATI driver was far better than the nvidia equiv
and if you really wanted to, ATI had released a functioning driver for
linux.

Oh how the times have changed. 6 months or so after that time nvidia
changed their tune, and i would have been better off buying an nvidia
card. On the bright side, ATI have now released the programming specs
for cards of my era, and apparently even have a dev working on the open
source driver. Thus the drivers for that are coming on rapidly and now
actually have decently functioning GL.

The intel based video card in my main frontend is however a different
story.....


Stuart