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Well i would say partly for UVD as there are too many files which do NOT work correctly. "Full" is really something else.

Quote: Originally Posted by Svartalf As for ease of use...heh... If you think coding for D3D is easy, I've got this bridge in Brooklyn to sell ya... Cheap price, even... Easy? Hell no, graphics programming ain't easy in any sense of the word. However, this doesn't change the fact that OpenGL is more painful than D3D by at least an order of magnitude: (a) bind-to-edit makes it very difficult to create performant, generic...

Quote: Originally Posted by BlackStar As things stand, OpenGL doesn't really stand a chance to become mainstream again./rant Mac OS X is becoming increasingly popular (Linux too, but not as significant as Mac OS X)... OpenGL is the only choice here. With Microsoft losing crazy marketshare to Apple... I don't know. The days of Windows are numbered... DirectX will not survive, but how long that will last is as good as anyone's...

Quote: Originally Posted by Dieter > Asus O!Play It appears that the Asus O!Play only has composite out, no s-video, no component, no DVI, HMDI, or DiiVA. :-( http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_I...l5K&templete=2 Input: DC Power In 1xUSB 2.0 Port 1xUSB 2.0 / eSATA Combo Port RJ-45 LAN Port Output: Composite Video Composite Audio L/R S/PDIF Out HDMI 1.3

Quote: Originally Posted by Melcar All UVD2 based chips should work if I'm not mistaken. I think the HD3200 is plain UVD. According to Bridgman, the HD3200, being part of the 780G chipset, actually DOES have UVD2.

Well, even the latest graphics hardware has fixed-function dedicated parts, some of them are: - rasterizer (comes before the pixel shader) - blender and output merger (comes after the pixel shader) - tessellator (between the hull and domain shaders) - texture units The first three are not accessible in OpenCL. Also, from my experience, hardware interfaces appear to be designed tightly around major 3D and compute APIs. You can't schedule...

Quote: Originally Posted by DeepDayze I doubt that...most likely you'd have to go to Broadcom's site to get the firmware file and drop that into /lib/firmware. It's not hard to automate downloading the firmware

Quote: Originally Posted by Dieter > I'm not really sure how we lose business by not opening up UVD. > If you plan to use the broadcom chip, you still need a GPU to drive your display. ATI has been documenting 3D, but there are plenty of people that do not need or want 3D. You may not want OpenGL, but newer chips only have a 3D engine and it's used for everything (2D, 3D, compute, buffer moves, etc.), so you need it...

Phoronix: MPlayer Now Supports Most HD-DVD/Blu-Ray Codecs This news is coming a few days late (MPlayer's web-site lacks any RSS or syndication support), but the latest MPlayer code in their SVN trunk now supports most HD-DVD and Blu-ray codecs. Earlier this year we talked about possible Blu-ray support for FFmpeg and developers becoming more interested after we interviewed the FFmpeg developers and there ended up being an outpouring of...

Quote: Originally Posted by RealNC Instead of whining, you can simply download them. There are more than enough torrent sites out there. Obviously, but that's missing the point that if you already have a copy, on a disc, you should have access to it, and definitely shouldn't have to install Windows to get that access. So yes, don't support closed/locked down movie discs, fully agreed, but at the same time the DMCA does need to...