February 11th, 2009 by acmelab68
This is quite a surprise. CoreCodec released today their new CoreAVC decoder in version 1.9.0.
And now it comes: it offers hardware accelerated decoding support. This is realized with Nvidia’s CUDA, and not with Nvidia’s PureVideo engine. Continue reading ‘CoreAVC 1.9.0 with CUDA support released’
February 11th, 2009 by acmelab68
I’ve been getting a green screen playing back a few .mkv videos. The video stopped playing exactly after one minute and five seconds. I’ve reported this here, and I’ve tried a lot of silly things. The time I did this, I was using Nvidia 180.27 and the mplayer-vdpau-3402051.
Now, since the launchpad PPA repository for the nvidia-vdpau driver has been updated too, I’m on Nvidia driver version 180.29 and have also downloaded the new mplayer-vdpau-3482714. Continue reading ‘VDPAU: how to fix green screen problem with mplayer-vdpau-3482714′
February 10th, 2009 by acmelab68
On 9th respectively 10th of January 2009 Nvidia published their new VDPAU driver in version 180.29 for x86 and x86_64 and a new mplayer-vdpau version.
Here are the interesting fixes from VDPAU’s point of view: Continue reading ‘VDPAU: Nvidia 180.29 and new mplayer released’
February 8th, 2009 by acmelab68
I’ve reported several times about tearing with Nvidia’s new VDPAU driver. Now it seems I’ve found a working solution for me, to get rid of this pretty ugly tearing effect. Here are my steps: