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For Linux Users - AMD Releases Open Source UVD drivers

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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_opensource_uvd&num=1

For many years, AMD Linux users have wanted open-source UVD/video-acceleration support to go along with their open-source OpenGL driver. However, it never came until now -- many years after UVD first arrived back in the ATI days. The official reasoning for years was that it's complicated to get any public documentation or open-source code since documenting UVD/UVD2 in the public domain could potentially compromise the Digital Rights Management abilities of their Catalyst driver on other operating systems. Obviously it's in AMD's best business interest to cater towards the much larger Windows market where Digital Rights Management for protected video content is critical, so it's been a sticky and drawn out situation getting open-source UVD support.
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Source code: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2013-April/036766.html

MESA Patches: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2013-April/037049.html

And, no I don't have instructions on how to get this working on your Linux system. I'll probably try it out later today. Hopefully this makes its way into the official drivers.
 
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