Enabling UVD3 support on ATI/AMD chips

Hello,

We're trying out some new hardware using the AMD G Series platform, their 'APU' design. This chip is extremely low power, extremely small, and still manages to push pretty much flawless 1080p video. We're using Ubuntu 10.04 as our OS, and I've been able to see flawless 1080p come from a customized version of MPlayer which was built with XvBA support.

However, when I set up MS Desktop player on the machine, it stutters on even 720p video. I assume that I need to change something to enable UVD3 support, but I don't know what that would be. In order to create the customized MPlayer, I had to build it from source. I would try the same here, but I don't know if I can get the source code to build from.

Has anyone had any experience with ATI/AMD UVD chips? Any luck getting any ATI setup going with UVD/hardware acceleration?

Hi
Unfortunately, the Adobe Engine doesnt yet make use of the APU or any hardware acceleration in Linux and has limited support for them in windows, thats why our suggested system requirements is Our system is an Intel powered 2.6GHz Core2Duo or better with 2GB of memory and 40GB storage. Intel Atoms and Amd APUs just dont perform up to par at the moment. We are hoping to change this when release 3.1 is out, with full  hardware GPU acceleration.

We recommend you use our mediaBOX which is available here:

http://mediasignage.com/html/media_players.html

But of course you are free to use any Windows, Ubuntu or Mac powered device.
As for hardware specifications, it all depends on what you will be running. But for good performance with Videos and SWF animation, we recommend the specs listed above.

Is there any way to configure which engine the player uses to decode video? I've now managed to get a working version of MPlayer installed which can be called system-wide and plays 1080p just fine. If I were able to get the player to use MPlayer to decode video, it should play 1080 ok.

Otherwise, is there any way to configure the player's playback engine? Could you perhaps tell me what engine the player uses to decode video?

You can use an embedded VLC to play the file, check this video:
http://mediasignage.com/html/signage_video.html?videoNumber=VLC

Thanks, even although this is not ideal, it does do what I need.

Hi
Unfortunately, the Adobe Engine doesnt yet make use of the APU or any hardware acceleration in Linux and has limited support for them in windows,

Adobe has stopped developing AIR for Linux. What's going to happen when AIR is no longer a working solution for the Linux platform?

like we posted, Adobe AIR 2.6 is still available and can be used with release of the SignagePlayer 3.0.
However, if you don't upgrade you will not be able to take advantage of any new releases.
So we recommend you upgrade to Windows or Mac.