AMD has made an open source Linux driver for Radeon graphics cards ​​available. The new driver will ensure that the HD4000 series video cards can use the UVD engine, which hardware videos can be decoded.

AMD Phoronix already tipped for the release of the drivers, which the Linux community has long waiting. However AMD had difficulty to meet this expectation, since the release of the source code of the driver might be a security risk for the DRM capabilities on other operating systems. AMD’s UVD will support Linux for VDPAU, an API that is supported by many...