[ACCELERANTS] Intel SandyBridge

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It would be great to have a hardware-accelerated optimizations support for SB too.

Here’s the (open source) FFDShow-related project: <a href=http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=162442>Intel SandyBridge hardware accelerated FFDShow decoder (H264/VC1/MPEG2)

Source code

Dunno if this can help in any way, but i believe that the author (Eric Gur, Processor Client Application Engineer @ Intel Corp.) could be also involved.

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UPDATE: SF.net’s official website -> https://sourceforge.net/projects/qsdecoder/

Features

  • Wicked fast and low power HW accelerated decoding using Intel’s QuickSync technologies.
  • Abstracts HW acceleration trickery – used like a standard SW decoder.
  • Time stamp correction.
  • Decodes variable frame rate video.
  • Inverse telecine.
  • Multi GPU or hybrid GPU support (Intel HW decoder + discrete renderer).
  • Very low overhead on top of pure DXVA solutions.
  • Open source and free for all (BSD license for the QuickSync decoder and GPL for FFDShow).
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Fortunately for owners of Sandy Bridge based systems, haiku’s full time contract programmer Michael Lotz recently acquired a Sandy Bridge based laptop with which he does his haiku work. As a result we should eventually see some good compatibility with Sandy Bridge based systems. See

Alan

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As I said replying to his post:
You’re massive man, I’m intimidated by you :slight_smile: !

But I suppose I’ve to use plural as all Haiku dev are “massives” so:
You’re massive men, I’m intimidated by you :slight_smile: !