MyMediaSystem – 1080p – AVCHD – H.264 – Linux – 3D – GPS & GPX
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:
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: Use latest driver (>=180.27) from the launchpad PPA repository. Add these lines into your /etc/apt/sources.list if you are using Debian/Ubuntu. If [...]
[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 [...]
[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 [...]