AMD Releases UVD Engine Source Code

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AMD Releases UVD Engine Source Code 79

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @11:33PM from the new-toys dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Years of desire by AMD Linux users to have open source video playback support by their graphics driver is now over. AMD has released open-source UVD support for their Linux driver so users can have hardware-accelerated video playback of H.264, VC-1, and MPEG video formats. UVD support on years old graphics cards was delayed because AMD feared open-source support could kill their Digital Rights Management abilities for other platforms."

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