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Nvidia 180.22 with VDPAU officially released

Nvidia released officially on 8. January 2009 their new x86 and x86_64 display driver for Linux.
There have been six prior Beta versions, which almost all were tested here. As of now Linux has an official support for hardware acceleration for H.264 / MPEG4/AVC encoded content, such as AVCHD (.mts, .m2ts, …) or Matroska (.mkv). Continue reading ‘Nvidia 180.22 with VDPAU officially released’

Canon HF S100 – HD AVCHD/SDHC camcorder

Canon announced a bunch of new camcorder models. The one I’m looking for is the Canon HF200 and the HF S100 Full-HD camcorders . As I reported before, the Canon HF100 is in my opinion the best low budget AVCHD/SDHC available at the moment. The picture quality of this model, which was brought to the public on April 2008 is breathtaking. But in comparison to the Panasonic HDC SD100, the old Canon camcorder can’t really compete with Panasonic’s feature set, Continue reading ‘Canon HF S100 – HD AVCHD/SDHC camcorder’

mplayer-vdpau: The “Error 23″ issue

There are some .mkv files, that refuses to play with the latest mplayer-vdpau (nvidia-180.18 + mplayer-vdpau-3263604. The error code, they return is:

Error 23 at libvo/vo_vdpau.c:724

Some recommend at the nvidia forum to change line 94 in libvo/vo_vdpau, and set up the value below up to anything higher:
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ATI tries to catch up with hardware acceleration for H.264 (RadeonHD)

There’s a project at freedesktop.org going on, where ATI Radeon cards are getting H.264 hardware acceleration. An AMD employee Alex Deucher wrote this announcement at freedesktop.org: Continue reading ‘ATI tries to catch up with hardware acceleration for H.264 (RadeonHD)’