The AMD developer that's been leading the open-source Radeon video efforts has been Christian König, who joined the company last year after being an earlier independent contributor to the Radeon stack. On Friday he made a rather surprising remark on the public mailing list.
In a mailing list message concerning the ongoing Gallium3D VDPAU state tracker improvements, Christian König said at the end, «Anyway, I will be busy with UVD code review next week so I won't have time to work on the state tracker for some time now, so that has to wait for a little while longer.»