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No more patching: mplayer with official vdpau support

As of now it’s not necessary to patch mplayer for vdpau anymore. I’ve just updated my mplayer with ‘svn up‘ to revision number 28699, and saw, that a new switch was added to the official mplayer subversion branch : ./configure –help | grep -i vdpau –enable-vdpau enable VDPAU acceleration [autodetect] So no more patching is [...]

VDPAU: Nvidia 180.29 and new mplayer released

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:

VDPAU without tearing

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 [...]

VDPAU: does my graphics card support VC-1

[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 [...]

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