Tag Archive for 'nVidia'

[solved] No sound via stereo jack with Philips LCD-TV

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 [...]

Nvidia 180.35 released: VC-1 surprice!

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 [...]

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: