December 31st, 2008 by acmelab68
[UPDATE]Read here, how to install VDR on Karmic Koala with Binary Packages.[/UPDATE] Reinhard Nissl managed to get his vdr-xine plugin going with Nvidia’s vdpau hardware acceleration support. What does mean HDTV and H.264 (mpeg4/avc) hardware acceleration is reality now on Linux! YES!
He instructed me on IRC#xine-vdpau and guided me through the installation process. He had enormous patience, and didn’t stop to help me, although my whole system is a real mess now, because of all my try-outs regarding xine, mlayer and vdpau compilations and installations. I still have difficulties with two channels. Some reported a flawless playback. Continue reading ‘VDR-Xine Plugin now with VDPAU support (HOWTO)’
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December 25th, 2008 by acmelab68
Nvidia released on 22th its new vdpau driver version 180.18, but not the corresponding mplayer-vdpau. One day later they also released a new mplayer-vdpau. The version 3263604.
I’ve reported a more or less working TwinView for vdpau version 180.18 on a x86_64 Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex), but today the situation look a bit different: Continue reading ‘Mplayer-vdpau: Matroska (.mkv) and AVCHD (.mts) now both working’
December 23rd, 2008 by acmelab68
Nvidia released on 22th December a new vdpau driver, the version 180.18. Here’s the release note:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=1882835. To be honest, I didn’t suck out much of it. So I’ve tested the x86_64 version against my three notorious candidates, like I did before for [1,2,3,4,5].
- Matroska (.mkv) still stutter (jerky playback)
- Sync_to_VBlank is still being ignored -> Tearing
- TwinView is working! (almost)
Continue reading ‘vdpau 180.18 now supports TwinView – sometimes’
December 22nd, 2008 by acmelab68
Having a working VDR, which can handle HDTV (H.264) content, has a touch of academic nature nowadays. The stations, which offer their content via DVB-S2 standard are just a few and what they send doesn’t really attract people. Continue reading ‘At the moment available HDTV channels over satellite’
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