Tag Archive for 'nVidia' at Acmelabs' Blog

Ion – a tiny Media PC from Nvidia

December 18th, 2008 by acmelab68

First of all, the new thing about it isn’t its size, but its ability to work together with on Atom CPU from Intel. That’s not usual, since there’s been only one chip-set available so far, which is design to work with on Atom CPU, and that’s Intel’s 945GM. Now the GeForce 9400M chip-set will be [...]

NVIDIA VDPAU 180.11.02 adds OpenGL3.0 support

December 17th, 2008 by acmelab68

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.

List of Currently Supported GPUs for NVIDIA’s VDPAU hardware acceleration

December 17th, 2008 by acmelab68

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 [...]

NVIDIA’s VDPAU Driver, Version 180.16 – Hardware Acceleration for HD content (H.264) with major improvements.

December 15th, 2008 by acmelab68

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: