Bug#656719: R: Bug#656719: Please provide xvmc and vdpau Gallium3D video acceleration drivers (libg3dvl-mesa package)
>2014-03-23 21:19 GMT+01:00 Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>:
>> On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 19:03:52 +0100, Pali Rohár wrote:
>>
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> It looks like nouveau, r600 and radeonsi vdpau drivers are already in
>>> debian repository. But not xvmc libraries. See:
>>>
>> Correct, we're probably not going to be enabling xvmc.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Julien
>
>Can I ask for reason why not to enable also xvmc?
>
>--
>Pali Rohár
>pali.rohar@gmail.com
There are apparently only two Debian packages that can leverage XvMC support:
mplayer and gxine. Other not packaged software may also use it anyway. Other
packages (not many, however) can use VDPAU (supported by open source mesa
drivers).
However the current status doesn't make a lot of sense: some software could
use XvMC but free mesa drivers are not provided. Since xvmc library is
supported in Debian I suppose free mesa drivers should also be provided. If we
don't want to support open source XvMC drivers we should also consider
deprecating libxvmc and recompiling software packages without it.
There may be also other technical (bugs or missing features) or non technical
(no developer care enough to do it or is able to test it or whatever was the
reason VDPAU took over 2 years to be packaged or glamor is still not) reasons
not to provide xvmc mesa drivers but I don't know them.
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