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The future of DivX 7

DivX 7 will be published, so DivX Inc. on January next year (2009). The company realized early, the time for HD content is coming, and they also tried early hard to place their, still on MPEG4/AVS based compression decoder as the decoder for HD content, such as 1920x1080p.

List of Currently Supported GPUs for NVIDIA’s VDPAU hardware acceleration

Currently supported VDPAU GPUs NVIDIA released on 14th of November 2008 a driver for Linux, which is capable of accelerating H.264 encoded content on hardware. What is called NVIDIA PureVideo and is available for Windows since 2006, is now also available for the UNIX world. This new driver is told to work also on Solaris [...]

NVIDIA’s VDPAU Driver, Version 180.16 – Hardware Acceleration for HD content (H.264) with major improvements.

I’ve just downloaded the latest NVIDIA 180.16 driver from 12th December, 2008 and tested it. x86: NVIDIA-Linux-x86-180.16-pkg1.run x86_64: NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.16-pkg2.run mplayer:mplayer-vdpau-3219724.tar.bz2 Follow the intructions here if you like to install NVIDIA’s Beta driver on a Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex). NVIDIA writes in the mplayer’s README.txt:

NVIDIA VDPAU 180.11 test against .mts (AVCHD) and .mkv (Matroska/h264) playback

[UPDATE] Read here about the latest development of NVIDIA’s vdpau video output driver: Tag: vdpau NVIDIA’s hardware acceleration for HD (H264) content is now reality since they published their first beta driver, the 180.06 on the 14th of November 2008. I’ve tested these new Beta driver here, and found a few bugs. I skipped the [...]

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