Am Montag, 23. April 2001 16:04 schrieb Michel Dänzer: > Fabian Jakobs wrote: > > Am Montag, 23. April 2001 13:49 schrieb Benjamin Herrenschmidt: > > > >Another thing is that there is now infrastructure for motion > > > >compensation, apparently an Intel guy is working on a DRI based driver > > > >for that for the i810/5 chipset. Am I right to assume that the M3 has > > > >such capabilities and when used they would solve all our problems? :) > > > > > > I think the ATI chips can do IDCT & motion comp. in HW, that would > > > definitely help, but I don't think it's documented. > > > > Some Loki people are working on IDCT for smpeg on r128 boards but as far > > as I know it's all under NDA. > > But will smpeg play MPEG-2 and eventually DVDs? MPEG-1 is not a problem > anyway...
that is right but a working acceleration of IDCT and motion compensation would also be very useful for decoding MPEG-2. As I remember do they have a library for this acceleration from ATI but everything is closed source and propably x86. mfg Fabian
