MyMediaSystem – 1080p – AVCHD – H.264 – Linux – 3D – GPS & GPX
NVIDIA released on 15th of December 2008 a new VDPAU (PureVideo for Linux) capable Beta Driver. I wrote in the test of 180.11 driver, that only OpenGL3.0 was added to the new driver. That was obviously wrong, because the ‘.02′ seems to accomplish this task.
Currently supported VDPAU GPUs NVIDIA released on 14th of November 2008 a driver for Linux, which is capable of accelerating H.264 encoded content on hardware. What is called NVIDIA PureVideo and is available for Windows since 2006, is now also available for the UNIX world. This new driver is told to work also on Solaris [...]
I’ve just downloaded the latest NVIDIA 180.16 driver from 12th December, 2008 and tested it. x86: NVIDIA-Linux-x86-180.16-pkg1.run x86_64: NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.16-pkg2.run mplayer:mplayer-vdpau-3219724.tar.bz2 Follow the intructions here if you like to install NVIDIA’s Beta driver on a Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex). NVIDIA writes in the mplayer’s README.txt:
[UPDATE]Read here, how to install VDR on Karmic Koala with Binary Packages.[/UPDATE] I’m running a patched VDR 1.7.0 with a SkyStar HD (with the Technotrend DVB S2 3200 driver), a svn xine-lib-1.2 and the H264 capable vdr-xine plugin fron Mr. Nissl. (See here the whole thread). Actually there are two ways to run VDR 1.7 [...]