From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 12 05:40:37 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CEAA1065670 for ; Sun, 12 Apr 2009 05:40:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com) Received: from sopwith.solgatos.com (pool-173-50-229-3.ptldor.fios.verizon.net [173.50.229.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EEC98FC17 for ; Sun, 12 Apr 2009 05:40:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com) Received: by sopwith.solgatos.com (Postfix, from userid 66) id 17AB5B64F; Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:35:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost by sopwith.solgatos.com (8.8.8/6.24) id WAA26714; Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:43:35 GMT Message-Id: <200904112243.WAA26714@sopwith.solgatos.com> To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:54:18 CDT." <1239479658.1932.24.camel@balrog.2hip.net> Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:43:35 +0100 From: Dieter Cc: Subject: Re: Help picking a video card and other related gear X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 05:40:38 -0000 > I don't believe that the radeon driver does currently, but XvMC is > only useful for mpeg2 content, which limits it somewhat. Bridgman doesn't care about video decoding, so it is at the very bottom of the ATI list. :-( Grarpamp mentioned OTA ATSC which is mpeg2, so XvMC is useful. (And also what I'm looking for.) Supposedly VIA extended XvMC so that it is useful for other codecs. But I haven't found info about which boards openchrome supports, and what features really work. > > Recent GPUs can offload most of the video decode duties, but this > > hasn't been documented and FLOSS code hasn't been implemented yet. > > (Unless you can find something in the Chrome family you like.) > > Not sure about that actually... VIA has released docs, but we don't have > drm support at this point as I still don't have VIA hardware to work on. Sorry, the "hasn't been documented and FLOSS code hasn't been implemented yet." referred to ATI's UVD/UVD2. And my info on VIA is minimal. > > The best source of info on the state of ATI FLOSS I've found is > > http://www.phoronix.com/ The gang there is mostly penguins, > > but I'm assuming that anything that goes into x.org should > > work on BSD? > > Mostly... I'm actually ahead of the penguins on ATI support right now. > At least as far as having code pushed and in mainline trees. Excellent! >> 2) The ability to color calibrate one or both cards via the xorg >> driver would be useful. I can spyder it from a windows box so >> just having the xorg knobs would suffice. Does anyone do this >> under xorg? > You can set rgb gamma, is that what you are referring to? Grarpamp might be talking about something like this: http://www.behardware.com/articles/580-1/the-spyder-2-an-affordable-colorimeter.html So far I haven't seen one of these articles explain what happens "under the hood".