Posted on Sunday, December 30 2007 @ 13:12 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
AMD is on the heels of releasing the next set of GPU
programming documentation to aide in the development of the open-source
R500/600 drivers (xf86-video-ati and xf86-video-radeonhd). It's already
been discussed what this NDA-free documentation release will have, but
one of the questions that have repeatedly come up is if/when AMD will
release information on accelerated video playback. AMD's John Bridgman
has now stated what they plan to release in the video realm as well as a
new requirement for their future graphics processors: being open-source
friendly while avoiding DRM.
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