AMD Open Sources Their Linux Video API

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AMD Open Sources Their Linux Video API 64

Posted by Roblimo on Saturday February 26, 2011 @08:42AM from the every-little-open-source-bit-helps dept.

An anonymous reader writes "AMD has open sourced X-Video Bitstream Acceleration, their API by which they expose the Universal Video Decoder 2 GPU under Linux." They may be a little late with this move, and not everything you could wish is now open source, but it's better than nothing.

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this is good news (Score:4, Interesting)

by bmalia ( 583394 ) writes: on Saturday February 26, 2011 @08:53AM (#35322938) Journal

I have always purchased nVidia cards soley because I knew that they provided linux drivers. Lately though, the drivers don't seem to work quite right. Might be getting to be about time for me to give ATI a go.

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