> Until we make a big fuss companies don't give us what we need/want.
< well then why did they make linux drivers in the first place
> we made a big fuss.
This made me smile
Sadly I don't think you can count on PureVideo _ever_ being available in the Linux drivers. Just look at the KDE4/firefox 3 nvidia debacle; Nvidias Linux drivers are the worst right now: even AMDs linux drivers are more usable / less buggy / incomplete (however, for video playback they are even worse than nVidias).
Software decoding is a safe bet, however. Once we get multithreaded decoding 1080 playback using a fairly cheap processor should not be a problem (just look at Q6600 prices for example; 2,6 GHz quadcore for 160€ / 200$; if we could employ all four cores this should play even high bitrate scenes without _any_ problems).
But as CABAC decoding seems to be very complicated when using multiple threads (and I suspect dull to program) we will have to wait...
-- bedahr
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