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X-Video Bitstream Acceleration
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<h2 id="device-drivers">Device drivers</h2> <p>Each hardware video <a href="/facts/GPU/PTK1RQVp">GPU</a> capable of XvBA video acceleration requires a <a href="/facts/X11/ac2vRIQL">X11</a> software <a href="/facts/Device_driver/rDYnHU1G">device driver</a> to enable these features. Currently only AMD's ATI <a href="/facts/Radeon/U6y80fWr">Radeon</a> graphics cards hardware that have support for <a href="/facts/UVD2/aQrrwg54">Unified Video Decoder version 2.0 or later</a> (primarily the <a href="/facts/Radeon_R700/kWppqQVY">Radeon HD 4000 series</a> or later) are supported by the proprietary <a href="/facts/ATI_Catalyst/ntMxIHW0">ATI Catalyst</a> device driver.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="software-supporting-xvba-natively">Software supporting XvBA natively</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/XBMC_Media_Center/tzwEQ9oh">XBMC Media Center</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/OpenELEC/5hd2SGrD">OpenELEC</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/MPlayer/nfyW0yjn">MPlayer</a> can be compiled to support XvBA<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Video_Acceleration_API/69nfosYC">Video Acceleration API (VA API)</a> - is an open source software library with XvBA backend support</li> <li><a href="/facts/Unified_Video_Decoder/aQrrwg54">UVD (Unified Video Decoder)</a> - is the video decoding unit from ATI Technologies to support hardware (<a href="/facts/GPU/PTK1RQVp">GPU</a>) decode</li> <li><a href="/facts/Nvidia_PureVideo/LsNonJny">Nvidia PureVideo</a> - the <a href="/facts/Stream_processing/vXe6gkTT">bit-stream technology</a> from <a href="/facts/NVIDIA/8QfCgqbu">NVIDIA</a> used in their graphics chips to accelerate video decoding on hardware <a href="/facts/GPU/PTK1RQVp">GPU</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/VDPAU/nQ1IYIdW">VDPAU (Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix)</a> - competing API by <a href="/facts/NVIDIA/8QfCgqbu">NVIDIA</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/DirectX_Video_Acceleration/0rCKebDp">DirectX Video Acceleration (DxVA) API</a> - <a href="/facts/Microsoft_Windows/bwhAhuSL">Microsoft Windows</a>'s accelerated video decoding API</li> <li><a href="/facts/OpenMAX_IL/uLBY8gXQ">OpenMAX IL (Open Media Acceleration Integration Layer)</a> - a royalty-free cross-platform media abstraction API from the <a href="/facts/Khronos_Group/QIegX0zJ">Khronos Group</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/X-Video_Motion_Compensation/8kK7l9bk">X-Video Motion Compensation (XvMC)</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Distributed_Codec_Engine/hBdePdMh">Distributed Codec Engine</a> (libcde) is a <a href="/facts/Texas_Instruments/88NUhuHF">Texas Instruments</a> API for the video codec esystem'sn <a href="/facts/OMAP/3oz3mLlT">OMAP</a> based embedded systems</li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://developer.amd.com/zones/opensource/Pages/default.aspx">AMD's open source page, containing a link to their XvBA SDK and Tools</a></li> <li><a href="http://xvbat.sourceforge.net/">XvBA Tools open source library, tools, and example code for accessing XvBA</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Michael Larabel (28 October 2008). "AMD's X-Video Bitstream Acceleration". Phoronix. <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_xvmc_xvba" target="_blank">https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_xvmc_xvba</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Kamil Dębski (2012). "Video4Linux2: Path to a Standardized Video Codec API" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-01-06. Retrieved 2013-12-04. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140106032317/https://events.linuxfoundation.org/images/stories/pdf/lceu2012_debski.pdf" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20140106032317/https://events.linuxfoundation.org/images/stories/pdf/lceu2012_debski.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Michael Larabel (3 February 2009). "A NVIDIA VDPAU Back-End For Intel's VA-API". Phoronix. <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=xorg_vdpau_vaapi" target="_blank">https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=xorg_vdpau_vaapi</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Michael Larabel (3 November 2009). "AMD's UVD2-based XvBA Finally Does Something On Linux". Phoronix. <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_xvba_vaapi" target="_blank">https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_xvba_vaapi</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Michael Larabel (3 February 2009). "A NVIDIA VDPAU Back-End For Intel's VA-API". Phoronix. <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=xorg_vdpau_vaapi" target="_blank">https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=xorg_vdpau_vaapi</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Michael Larabel (25 February 2011). "AMD Opens Up XvBA! Their Catalyst Linux Video API". Phoronix. <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTEzNg" target="_blank">https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTEzNg</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Michael Larabel (16 October 2008). "Yes, Catalyst 8.10 Is Out There". Phoronix. <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Njc4OA" target="_blank">https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Njc4OA</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Michael Larabel (15 October 2008). "UVD Is Enabled For Linux In Catalyst 8.10". Phoronix. <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Njc4Ng" target="_blank">https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Njc4Ng</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>Michael Larabel (4 September 2008). "AMD's UVD2 & XvMC For Linux?". Phoronix. <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjcwMA" target="_blank">https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjcwMA</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>Michael Larabel (14 December 2011). "XBMC Project Implements AMD XvBA Interface". Phoronix. <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAyODU" target="_blank">https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAyODU</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>"Progress on the Fusion project - XVBA support". OpenELEC. 12 December 2011. Archived from the original on 16 March 2012. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120316041210/http://openelec.tv/component/k2/item/215-progress-on-the-fusion-project-xvba-support" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20120316041210/http://openelec.tv/component/k2/item/215-progress-on-the-fusion-project-xvba-support</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:12"><p>Michael Larabel (28 October 2008). "AMD's X-Video Bitstream Acceleration". Phoronix. <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_xvmc_xvba" target="_blank">https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_xvmc_xvba</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>