“ATI Technologies Inc… announced today the development of
the ATI VHA (Video Hardware Acceleration) Software Development Kit
for the Linux operating system.”
“The ATI Linux VHA Kit will add hardware support for high
quality video such as MPEG-2 to Linux. It provides a software
interface between the iDCT and motion compensation video
acceleration of the ATI RAGE 128™-based accelerators, and
MPEG-2 and DVD video playback formats. Supported products include
RAGE 128 and RAGE 128 PRO™ chips and boards such as the RAGE
FURY PRO™, All-in-Wonder 128™ and XPERT
2000™.”
“This announcement also confirms ATI’s pursuit to become the
Linux community’s Number One graphics vendor. It builds on the
company’s earlier announcement of official support for the Linux
OS, and release of development information for ATI’s products. With
release of the VHA Software Development Kit for MPEG-2 and DVD
playback, ATI now offers the industry’s most complete and robust
product support for the Linux operating system. Initiatives are
underway for Linux development in ATI’s set-top products.”