February 8th, 2009 by acmelab68
This article answer the question where VC-1 is and probably will be used and how much.
For the impatient ones: Buy a 8400GT (G98) or 9300GT (G96), because you’ll never know 
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And if you’ve already bought a graphics card, and want to know if your card is capable of playing back VC-1 content with Nvidia’s VDPAU, you can do this with this little tool: vdpinfo Continue reading ‘VDPAU: VC-1 or which card to buy’
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February 8th, 2009 by acmelab68
[UPDATE]Since Nvidia driver version 180.35 almost all Nvidia graphics cards starting with the 8xxx series are able to play back VC-1 content.[/UPDATE]
VC-1 is one of three open standards for HD DVD and more important these days, the Blu-Ray disk.
If you’ve already bought a graphics cards, and you are not certain if your card support VC-1 with Nvidias new VDPAU driver, you’ve got two possibilities to find out if your card does support VC-1 natively.
Install nvclock: Continue reading ‘VDPAU: does my graphics card support VC-1′
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February 3rd, 2009 by acmelab68
Google Earth 5 for Linux crashes. You can solve this problem by renaming libcrypto.so.0.9.8 to something else. But be careful, there are probably more than one file with this name on your hard disk drive.
Be sure, the file you rename resides in the googleearth folder. Continue reading ‘Google Earth 5 crashes on Linux’
January 27th, 2009 by acmelab68
Nvidia released a new video driver for Linux, the version 180.25 (x86, x86_64).
They also released a new mplayer-vdpau, many people have been waiting for, since there have been memory allocation issues with the old version. Continue reading ‘Nvidia 180.25 and new mplayer-vdpau released’
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