[mythtv] Support for upcoming VDPAU on AMD and Myth Player

[dargllun]

On 10.06.2011 04:16, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> Hi
>
> On 10 June 2011 10:30, Mark Kendall<mark.kendall at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> The most obvious 'issue' from that log is that it is using software
>> decode. I couldn't find any detail on the video-pipe branch so I don't
>> know whether it should be using the gpu for decoding or not.
>>
>> Other than that, there's little of note in the logs (using straight
>> '-v playback' would give a more useful log) and certainly no hint as
>> to why the peformance isn't great.
>
> I have a new machine at home with an ATI graphic card ; I will try
> testing this VDPAU things cool and see what I come up with.

Let me know if you need assistance in setting up the pipe-video branch 
of Mesa/r600g for this experiment.

Vice versa, if you succeed in getting smooth playback with the VDPAU on 
Catalyst+Splitted Desktop bridges I'd be very interested in getting 
assistance from you :-)

Greg