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XBMC Developers Criticize AMD's Linux Driver

Posted by timothy on from the pss-there's-a-conspiracy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It's not only the NVIDIA Linux driver that has been publicly slammed over lacking support; the AMD Catalyst driver is now facing scrutiny from developers of the XBMC media and entertainment software. The developers aren't happy with AMD due to not properly supporting video acceleration under Linux. The AMD Linux driver is even lacking support for MPEG2 video acceleration and newer levels of H.264. AMD reportedly has the support coded, but they're refusing to turn it on in their public Linux driver."

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  1. Oh No by sexconker · · Score: -1, Troll

    Who cares?
    There are plenty of versions of their drivers that include support, available for plenty of operating systems.

  2. Re:Actually I care... by Moheeheeko · · Score: -1, Troll
    Actually, its poorly supported because there are so many different versions of it that usually need different support.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions

    Go ahead and scroll down, look at that list. Who wants to make the same drivers for THAT MANY distros?

    Heres the graphical representation of that.

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Gldt.svg/248px-Gldt.svg.png