Archive for the 'AVCHD' Category

CoreAVC 1.9.0 with CUDA support released

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’

VDPAU: how to fix green screen problem with mplayer-vdpau-3482714

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′

VDPAU: Nvidia 180.29 and new mplayer released

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’

VDPAU without tearing

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: