Tag Archive for 'nVidia' at Acmelabs' Blog

GeForce 3D Vision vs. Elsa 3D Revelator shutter glasses

January 12th, 2009 by acmelab68

Sure, it’s an odd title, because Elsa 3D Revelator shutter glasses have been released 1999 and aren’t available anymore. Well – at eBay they are. Just imagine to use this new 3D webcam (Minoru) with Skype and see your partner on the other side in 3D. I’ve read a lot about Nvidia’s new shutter glasses, [...]

Nvidia 180.22 with VDPAU officially released

January 10th, 2009 by acmelab68

Nvidia released officially on 8. January 2009 their new x86 and x86_64 display driver for Linux. There have been six prior Beta versions, which almost all were tested here. As of now Linux has an official support for hardware acceleration for H.264 / MPEG4/AVC encoded content, such as AVCHD (.mts, .m2ts, …) or Matroska (.mkv).

mplayer-vdpau: The “Error 23″ issue

January 6th, 2009 by acmelab68

There are some .mkv files, that refuses to play with the latest mplayer-vdpau (nvidia-180.18 + mplayer-vdpau-3263604. The error code, they return is: Error 23 at libvo/vo_vdpau.c:724 Some recommend at the nvidia forum to change line 94 in libvo/vo_vdpau, and set up the value below up to anything higher:

ATI tries to catch up with hardware acceleration for H.264 (RadeonHD)

December 31st, 2008 by acmelab68

There’s a project at freedesktop.org going on, where ATI Radeon cards are getting H.264 hardware acceleration. An AMD employee Alex Deucher wrote this announcement at freedesktop.org: