On Friday 12 February 2010 18:44:59 Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 12 février 2010 à 18:36 -0500, Andres Mejia a écrit : > > Description : Video Acceleration (VA) API for Linux > > > > Video Acceleration API (VA API) is a library ("libVA") and API > > specification which enables and provides access to graphics hardware > > (GPU) acceleration for video processing on Linux and UNIX based operating > > systems. Accelerated processing includes video decoding, video encoding, > > subpicture blending and rendering. The specification was originally > > designed by Intel for its GMA (Graphics Media Accelerator) series of GPU > > hardware, the API is however not limited to GPUs or Intel specific > > hardware, as other hardware and manufacturers can also freely use this > > API for hardware accelerated video decoding. > > I don’t think the last sentence has a place in the package’s long > description. If some day it gets support for other hardware, it will be > more than time for updating the description, but currently it is an > Intel-specific library. >
There is support for NVIDIA hardware through a VDPAU driver and ATI hardware through an XvBA driver. -- Regards, Andres -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org