Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 30th Dec 2007 19:56 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"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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2005-07-06
That's part of the reason I was hoping that one day we'll see a video card vendor come out with a dedicated PCIe video card loaded with dedicated memory using an Intel GPU.
I have a look at the Nvidia drivers, and basically, got a problem? tough luck. Same said for ATI drivers - look how long it took for them to fix issues with their drivers; and they're still crappy. So bad in fact I've decided to stick with the open source ATI driver over the proprietary one, the performance is that bad.