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AMD Open Sources Their Linux Video API

Posted by Roblimo on 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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  1. this is good news by bmalia · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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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