Phoronix: Xine Picks Up Support For NVIDIA's VDPAU
It was just a month ago that NVIDIA had introduced the Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix that brought PureVideo-like features to Linux and as our early benchmarks showed this video API did an effective job at offloading video-related tasks to the graphics card that otherwise would be handled by the CPU. Last week we then took a $20 processor and $30 graphics card and managed to play HD videos on Linux quite well when using VDPAU. When NVIDIA had introduced VDPAU they did supply patches that added support for this API to the MPlayer and ffmpeg projects...
It was just a month ago that NVIDIA had introduced the Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix that brought PureVideo-like features to Linux and as our early benchmarks showed this video API did an effective job at offloading video-related tasks to the graphics card that otherwise would be handled by the CPU. Last week we then took a $20 processor and $30 graphics card and managed to play HD videos on Linux quite well when using VDPAU. When NVIDIA had introduced VDPAU they did supply patches that added support for this API to the MPlayer and ffmpeg projects...
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