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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!
This is [...]

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The Linux AVCHD (.mts) Playback HOWTO with MPlayer

Alan fixed the Segmentation Fault issue for CoreAVC version 1.8.5.0, so Matroska files can be played back again. See this thread at his project site: #62
Unfortunately AVCHD has still issues. So CoreAVC version 1.8.5.0 still doesn’t work regarding playback of AVCHD footage from my Canon HF100. I think Panasonic HDC-SD1/5/9/100 is also affected.
If you [...]

[solved] Problems with CoreAVC 1.8.5 on Linux

[UPDATE] Alan fixed the Segmentation Fault issue for CoreAVC version 1.8.5.0, so Matroska files can be played back again. See this thread at his project site: #62. Thanks a lot Alan!
Playback of AVCHD still doesn’t work. Read this workaround for playing back AVCHD footage without CoreAVC.
On 17th of October CoreCodec released their decoder [...]

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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 as [...]