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From: Robert Lowery <Robert.Lowery@colorbus.com.au>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [Slightly OT]  Where should SIS 6326 mpeg2 hardware acceleration  code live?
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 10:18:52 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <370747DEFD89D2119AFD00C0F017E6614A62CF@cbus613-server4.colorbus.com.au> (raw)

Hi,

I have recently acquired a PCI graphics card based on the SIS 6326 chipset.
This chipset supports YUV->RGB conversion, Hardware motion compensation and
iDCT in hardware.  Using Windows 98 and PowerDVD I am able to playback full
screen DVD without any skipped frames on a Pentium 233MMX.  All for the
cheap price of around $US20.

The full specs on this chipset are available at
http://www.sis.com/ftp/Databook/6326/6326ds10.exe

The hardware acceleration of this card does not appear to be supported under
linux, and I am unsure where the code should even go if I was to try and
write it.

I have tried mailing to the livid-devel@linuxvideo.org, as I first thought
this is where the code would belong, but have had no responses at all in 4
days.  Is this Livid/OMS project still alive.

Alternatives (that I am aware of) are
video4linux
fbcon
Xv

Where should this hardware support live, I suspect it does not belong in the
kernel ;) and who should I be talking to.  I am willing to do a lot of the
work to get this chipset supported, but since my device driver experience is
somewhat limited, I would probably need a mentor ;)

Please cc any repies to me as I am not subscribed

Cheers

-Robert

             reply	other threads:[~2001-08-30  0:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-30  0:18 Robert Lowery [this message]
2001-08-30  3:36 ` [Slightly OT] Where should SIS 6326 mpeg2 hardware acceleration code live? Steven Walter

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