MyMediaSystem – 1080p – AVCHD – H.264 – Linux – 3D – GPS & GPX
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).
[UPDATE] Read here about the latest development of NVIDIA’s vdpau video output driver: Tag: vdpau NVIDIA’s hardware acceleration for HD (H264) content is now reality since they published their first beta driver, the 180.06 on the 14th of November 2008. I’ve tested these new Beta driver here, and found a few bugs. I skipped the [...]
[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! [...]
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 [...]