MyMediaSystem – 1080p – AVCHD – H.264 – Linux – 3D – GPS & GPX
VDPAU was one of the big topics here on this blog for quite a while. Mplayer was well known to work together with VDPAU and Nvidia’s graphics cards >= 8xxx from almost the very beginning. But not Xine. The developers of Xine didn’t run mplayer’s approach, which was almost nothing else, but the code reuse [...]
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 [...]
A little HOWTO on how to make VDR using the new VDPAU hardware acceleration… [UPDATE]Read here, how to install VDR on Karmic Koala with Binary Packages.[/UPDATE] Like I wrote here, the xine developer team is working on an own implementation of Nvidia’s VDPAU video display driver, which is an H.264 hardware acceleration. I’ve downloaded (checked [...]
[UPDATE]Read here, how to install VDR on Karmic Koala with Binary Packages.[/UPDATE] I’m running a patched VDR 1.7.0 with a SkyStar HD (with the Technotrend DVB S2 3200 driver), a svn xine-lib-1.2 and the H264 capable vdr-xine plugin fron Mr. Nissl. (See here the whole thread). Actually there are two ways to run VDR 1.7 [...]