MyMediaSystem – 1080p – AVCHD – H.264 – Linux – 3D – GPS & GPX
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 [...]
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 [...]
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:
[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 [...]