March 13th, 2009 by acmelab68
I’ve recently bought a quite cheap LCD-TV from Philips. It’s an 42pfl5603d. The TV has FullHD (1920×1080) resolution and is 42″ in size. These are actually the only features I’ve been keen on. The first one I sent back, because the TV set didn’t react either on remote or local (side panel) key presses. Amazon [...]
February 25th, 2009 by acmelab68
Nvidia released on 24th, of February their new Nvidia driver for Linux. The version 180.35 is a real surprise, since it is said to support now all Nvidia gfx cards starting with the 8 series regarding the VC-1 and WMV playback. The release note states also a few major fixes are fixed regarding malicious and/or [...]
February 22nd, 2009 by acmelab68
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 [...]
February 10th, 2009 by acmelab68
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: