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Enables GPU acceleration for open-sourced VLC Player 1.1.1

Every now and then, AMD’s Catalyst Product Manager Terry Makedon will post a tweet about the status of ATI’s Catalyst driver development, including any performance features or fixes that the GPU enthusiast community can look forward to in the next release.

According to a recent tweet he made that now appears to be deleted for some reason, Catalyst 10.7 drivers will be available just before the last week of July and should be released on Wednesday, July 21st. The update is expected to bring compatibility improvements to VLC Player 1.1.1, an update which will enable GPU acceleration and DSP decoding on select AMD Radeon HD Series cards. As already stated by VideoLan, however, the current code (version 1.1.0) isn’t corking correctly on Windows and VLC programmers are hard at work on releasing version 1.1.1 that will be designed to work with the upcoming Catalyst 10.7 drivers. The group mentions that AMD provided them with a beta release of the upcoming drivers and they have successfully verified that GPU acceleration works.

All in all, Catalyst 10.7 and VLC 1.1.1 will enable a wide community of users on multiple operating systems to playback video using GPU acceleration on their AMD Radeon HD series GPUs. We have a feeling that this event is going to be even more significant than when native GPU acceleration was offered with Windows Media Player 12 in Windows 7 on launch day in October 2009. VLC Player is open-sourced code running on multiple platforms and allows a much larger audience of users to play many more format types and codecs than those offered by Microsoft’s Windows Media Player and other competing GPU-accelerated media players.

We are looking forward to the release of Catalyst 10.7 later this month and will report back on any other driver improvements that AMD decides to implement.

News Source: http://www.fudzilla.com/graphics/gra...sday-july-21st

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