Acmelabs' Blog

VDPAU without tearing

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 [...]

VDPAU: does my graphics card support VC-1

[UPDATE]Since Nvidia driver version 180.35 almost all Nvidia graphics cards starting with the 8xxx series are able to play back VC-1 content.[/UPDATE] VC-1 is one of three open standards for HD DVD and more important these days, the Blu-Ray disk. If you’ve already bought a graphics cards, and you are not certain if your card [...]

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Google Earth 5 crashes on Linux

Google Earth 5 for Linux crashes. You can solve this problem by renaming libcrypto.so.0.9.8 to something else. But be careful, there are probably more than one file with this name on your hard disk drive. Be sure, the file you rename resides in the googleearth folder.

Nvidia 180.25 and new mplayer-vdpau released

Nvidia released a new video driver for Linux, the version 180.25 (x86, x86_64). They also released a new mplayer-vdpau, many people have been waiting for, since there have been memory allocation issues with the old version.

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