MyMediaSystem – 1080p – AVCHD – H.264 – Linux – GPS & GPX
Today I did it. I’ve upgraded my system from Intrepid Ibex(8.10) onto Jaunty Jackalope (9.04). My Ubuntu x86_64 installation offered me, as always, a couple of new packages for update, and as I wanted to update, a message box told me, I could do a whole system upgrade onto Jaunty Jackalope. So I did and [...]
I’ve reported several times about tearing with Nvidia’s new VDPAU driver. Now it seems I’ve found a working solution for me, to get rid of this pretty ugly tearing effect. Here are my steps:
Use latest driver (>=180.27) from the launchpad PPA repository. Add these lines into your /etc/apt/sources.list if you are using Debian/Ubuntu. If not, [...]
Nvidia released on 22th December a new vdpau driver, the version 180.18. Here’s the release note:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=1882835. To be honest, I didn’t suck out much of it. So I’ve tested the x86_64 version against my three notorious candidates, like I did before for [1,2,3,4,5].
Matroska (.mkv) still stutter (jerky playback)
Sync_to_VBlank is still being ignored -> Tearing
TwinView is [...]
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: