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VDPAU – The NVIDIA 180.06 beta driver for Linux – or how to play back AVCHD with GPU acceleration

[UPDATE] Read here about the latest development of NVIDIA’s vdpau video output driver: Tag: vdpau I’ve been waiting for this moment a very long time, and honestly speaking, I didn’t really believe I would play AVCHD content form my Canon HF100 with hardware acceleration on Linux in the next future. But today I did. Yes! [...]

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Tearing with nVidia drivers and mplayer with “-vo xv”

Well, let’s start with the conclusion: setting XV_SYNC_TO_VBLANK has no effect, if a second monitor is attached. But let’s start at the very beginning: What is tearing? Well, this is how Wikipedia defines it: Screen tearing is a phenomenon in video where a previously rendered frame overlaps a newly rendered frame, creating a torn look [...]