X-Video (Xv) is a basic video output interface for the X11/X.Org Server.

X-Video Articles & Reviews

Nouveau GeForce 400/500 Fermi On Linux 3.1   Display Drivers   2011-08-05
Open-Source 2D, 3D For ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series GPUs   Display Drivers   2010-08-20
AMD Radeon HD 4250 880G On Linux   Graphics Cards   2010-08-06
AMD's UVD2-based XvBA Finally Does Something On Linux   Display Drivers   2009-11-03
AMD Pushes Out New R600/700 3D Code   Display Drivers   2009-04-18
Drawing Open-Source Triangles On The ATI RV770   Display Drivers   2008-12-31
Mplayer, FFmpeg Gain VA-API Support   Software   2008-12-24
AMD Catalyst 8.12 Linux Driver   Display Drivers   2008-12-10
MSI GeForce 9800GT 512MB   Graphics Cards   2008-11-18
Sapphire Radeon HD 4830 512MB   Graphics Cards   2008-11-12
AMD's X-Video Bitstream Acceleration   Display Drivers   2008-10-29
AMD Catalyst 8.3 Linux Driver   Display Drivers   2008-03-05
ATI/AMD's Open-Source Plans   Display Drivers   2008-02-23
Nouveau Companion 35   Display Drivers   2008-02-14
Nouveau Companion 30   Display Drivers   2007-11-10
Nouveau Companion 27   Display Drivers   2007-09-26
Nouveau Companion 26   Display Drivers   2007-08-22
AMD 8.34.8 Display Driver   Display Drivers   2007-02-21

X-Video Linux & Open-Source News

Blumenkrantz Flushes 17.1k Lines Of Old Mesa Code   Mesa   2022-10-01
FFmpeg 5.1 Released With Many Improvements To This Important Multimedia Project   Multimedia   2022-07-22
FFmpeg Finally Retires XvMC Hardware Acceleration Code   Multimedia   2022-02-17
Red Hat / Fedora To Focus On Driving New Linux Video Improvements Around PipeWire   PipeWire   2021-10-01
Standalone XWayland Makes It For Ubuntu 21.04 Along With Linux 5.11, Mesa 21.0   Ubuntu   2021-03-18
XWayland 21.1 Standalone Released To Offer Better X11 Client On Wayland Experience   X.Org   2021-03-17
From Botched Releases To Exciting New Features, Fedora Saw A Lot Of Changes During The 2010s   Fedora   2019-12-24
VirtualBox DRM Driver Gets Patches To Go Atomic, Promote Out Of Staging   Oracle   2018-09-27
xf86-video-v4l X.Org Driver Sees First New Release In A Decade   X.Org   2018-08-14
GLAMOR & xf86-video-modesetting Get Deep Color Support In X.Org Server 1.20   X.Org   2018-02-27
VLC 3.0 Released   Multimedia   2018-02-09
VLC 3.0 Should Be Out By The End Of The Week   Multimedia   2018-02-08
Intel Releases New Linux Media Driver For VA-API   Intel   2017-12-01
Xfce Parole Media Player 0.9 Released   Desktop   2017-02-11
Freedreno Encouraging Users To Switch To Modesetting X.Org Driver   X.Org   2016-11-16
X.Org Server 1.18.2 Brings DRI3 Fixes, Better GLAMOR & XWayland Updates   X.Org   2016-03-11
XWayland Lands The GLAMOR X-Video Support   Wayland   2016-03-11
XWayland Gets GLAMOR X-Video Support   Wayland   2016-02-16
OpenGL 3.1 Core Support Lands In X.Org Server's GLAMOR   X.Org   2016-01-26
X.Org Server 1.17 Pre-Release "TimTam" Is Out   X.Org   2015-01-23
Mode-Setting Driver Now Supports VBlanks With Present   X.Org   2014-12-26
X-Video Support For The Mode-Setting DDX Driver   X.Org   2014-12-15
AMD's New Open-Source "AMDGPU" Linux Driver Supports The R9 285 Tonga   Radeon   2014-10-13
The Next AMD Catalyst Linux Driver Is Much More Exciting   AMD   2014-09-26
New Code Starts Lining Up For X.Org Server 1.17   X.Org   2014-09-16
GLAMOR Changes Already Get Queued For X.Org Server 1.17   X.Org   2014-07-18
Nouveau X.Org Driver Adds Maxwell & GLAMOR Acceleration Support   Nouveau   2014-06-19
GLAMOR Xephyr & DRI3 Support Called For Pulling   X.Org   2014-03-05
AMD Press Talks Up Major Open-Source Linux Driver Features   AMD   2014-02-25
Intel GLAMOR Gains X-Video Support   Intel   2014-02-01
xf86-video-ati 7.3.0 Radeon X.Org Driver Released   Radeon   2014-01-24
GLAMOR-EGL 0.6 Has X-Video & DRI3   X.Org   2014-01-24
XvMC Support Now Disabled By Default In Mesa   Mesa   2014-01-14
Lots Of X.Org GLAMOR Improvements Planned   X.Org   2014-01-12
Intel X.Org Driver Released With New Stability Fixes   Intel   2013-11-13
Radeon Driver Now Supports X-Video GLAMOR   Radeon   2013-09-29
GLAMOR X-Video Support Was Made In One Day   X.Org   2013-09-23
XvMC PMPEG Acceleration For Nouveau NV30   Nouveau   2013-08-15
The State Of GSoC 2013 X.Org/Mesa/DRM Projects   Google   2013-08-09
Nouveau Driver Gets Multi-Screen Reverse Optimus   Nouveau   2013-07-30
Video Support Still Brewing For GLAMOR Acceleration   X.Org   2013-07-16
FFmpeg 2.0 Released With OpenCL, Many Changes   Multimedia   2013-07-10
Nouveau Advances NVIDIA NVF0/GK110 Support   Nouveau   2013-07-05
Intel Driver Gets More Fixes, Performance Tweaks   Intel   2013-06-22
X.Org Has Some Interesting Summer GSoC Projects   X.Org   2013-05-30
AMD Kernel Mode-Setting Continues On FreeBSD   AMD   2013-04-13
X.Org/Mesa Might Get Better GLAMOR, GLSL, Shatter   X.Org   2013-04-09
X.Org/Mesa/Wayland In GSoC 2013   Google   2013-04-08
OpenChrome Driver Is Far From Feature Complete   Linux Kernel   2013-04-06
AMD Kernel Mode-Setting Progresses For FreeBSD   AMD   2013-04-04
VIA Secretly Has A Working Gallium3D Driver   Mesa   2013-04-02
OpenELEC 3.0 Brings In XBMC 12.1 Frodo   Operating Systems   2013-03-24
GStreamer OpenMAX IL Wrapper 1.0 Released   Free Software   2013-03-23
The Video Acceleration State On Linux GPU Drivers   Hardware   2013-02-05
New ARM X.Org Driver Promises Better Performance   X.Org   2013-02-01
Open-Source AMD Graphics Driver 7.1.0 Released   AMD   2013-01-30
Intel Driver Update Brings Back XvMC, Fixes Bugs   Intel   2012-09-29
It's Time To Test The Radeon/Intel/Nouveau Drivers   Fedora   2012-09-25
DRI2 Video Support Still Being Planned   Free Software   2012-09-22
GStreamer Conference 2012: ALSA, OpenGL, Wayland   Free Software   2012-08-29
Extending DRI2 For Video Handling Still Desired   Free Software   2012-08-28
Intel 2.20.4 X.Org Driver Brings More Fixes   Intel   2012-08-18
MythTV 0.26 Gets Ready For Video Playback   Free Software   2012-07-19
EXA Support Finally Comes To The R128 Driver   AMD   2012-07-06
AMD Comments On XvBA Video Situation   AMD   2012-06-26
Using GPU Video Acceleration Under Linux   AMD   2012-06-22
Radeon 6.14.5 Linux Graphics Driver Released   Radeon   2012-06-07
OpenChrome Now Defaults To EXA   X.Org   2012-05-16
Suldal Improvements; New OpenCL, VDPAU Benchmarks   Phoronix   2012-04-29
EXA Acceleration For The Old ATI Rage Driver   AMD   2012-04-29
MythTV 0.25 Is Finally Released With Many Changes   Multimedia   2012-04-10
AMD Catalyst 12.2 For Linux Brings Few Changes   AMD   2012-03-07
OpenChrome Picks Up New VIA Support, But Still Lags   X.Org   2012-02-10
MPlayer2 Is Still Being Actively Developed   Free Software   2012-01-22
MythTV 0.25 Is Still Being Baked With Many Changes   Multimedia   2012-01-05
XBMC Project Implements AMD XvBA Interface   AMD   2011-12-14
Intel Officially Puts Out 2.17 X.Org Driver   Intel   2011-11-16
xf86-video-intel 2.17 Release Candidate   Intel   2011-10-30
What's Popular In The Linux World This Year   Free Software   2011-10-29
Caveats In The Ubuntu 11.10 Graphics Stack   Ubuntu   2011-10-13
New, Generic X.Org KMS Driver Work   X.Org   2011-09-30
Nouveau Hardware-Based Video Support In Mesa   Mesa   2011-09-13
The VP8 State Tracker That Was Born This Summer   Mesa   2011-08-28
Running The Xorg State Tracker On R300 Gallium3D   AMD   2011-08-24
R600g Now Works With Xorg State Tracker   AMD   2011-08-23
Texas Instruments Proposes Extending DRI2 For Video   X.Org   2011-08-19
Intel Rounds Out Its Ivy Bridge Graphics Driver   Intel   2011-08-09
Intel Prepares Its 2.16 DDX Feature Release   Intel   2011-07-30
The DRM Pull For The Linux 3.1 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2011-07-26
Gallium3D Pipe-Video To Be Merged To Mesa Master   Mesa   2011-07-11
DRM Changes Coming Up For Linux 3.1 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2011-07-05
Intel Continues Work On Ivy Bridge Linux Graphics Support   Intel   2011-06-22
VMware Releases The XA Gallium3D State Tracker   Mesa   2011-06-15
Major Open-Source Code Drop For XvBA, PowerVR Coming   Free Software   2011-06-14
AMD AES Releases XvBA Reference System   AMD   2011-06-07
Here's The AMD Llano Fusion Mesa/Gallium3D Code   AMD   2011-05-31
New ATI/AMD X.Org Driver Released (6.14.2)   AMD   2011-05-26
Hip Hip Hurrah, Nouveau Frees Up The Fermi Microcode   Nouveau   2011-05-25
AMD Radeon HD "Cayman" Finally Moves On With Acceleration   Radeon   2011-05-24
VMware's Gallium3D Driver For Virtualization   Virtualization   2011-05-14
DirectX Video Acceleration For MPlayer   Free Software   2011-04-23
Finally It Comes: A KMS Driver For QEMU-KVM   Virtualization   2011-04-18
The SiS X.Org Driver Gets Some Improvements   X.Org   2011-04-06
xf86-video-intel 2.15.0 Is About To Come   Intel   2011-03-29
Moonlight Gets Generic GPU Video Acceleration   Free Software   2011-03-23
Will H.264 VA-API / VDPAU Finally Come To Gallium3D?   Mesa   2011-03-23
Will The Linux 2.6.39 Kernel Bring Graphics Magic?   Linux Kernel   2011-03-14
LLVMpipe Gallium3D Is Used In Fedora 15   Fedora   2011-03-10
AMD Opens Up XvBA! Their Catalyst Linux Video API   AMD   2011-02-25
xf86-video-v4l Driver Ported To V4L2   X.Org   2011-02-08
Yet Another VIA Linux Driver Has Arrived   X.Org   2011-02-05
A Major Open-Source ATI Linux Driver Update   AMD   2011-02-03
Linux 2.6.38-rc1 Is Here With Two Features Linus Loves   Linux Kernel   2011-01-18
Nouveau Fermi Acceleration Merged Into X Driver   Nouveau   2011-01-16
The DRM Brings Some Fun To The Linux 2.6.38 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2011-01-10
Update On The HD 6000 Series Open-Source Support   AMD   2011-01-07
There May Finally Be Better ATI Linux Video Playback   AMD   2011-01-05
The Challenge In Delivering Open-Source GPU Drivers   Intel   2011-01-03
MythTV Developers Plan Xv, XvMC, OpenGL Changes   Multimedia   2010-12-02
NVIDIA Tries To Put Fence Sync Into X Server 1.10   NVIDIA   2010-12-02
Flash 10.2 On Intel Will Warm Your Lap, But Not Much More   Proprietary Software   2010-12-02
Adobe's Flash Video Acceleration On Linux Uses VDPAU   Proprietary Software   2010-12-01
XvMC With iDCT Now Working On Gallium3D   Mesa   2010-11-21
Intel Gets Ready With New X.Org Driver For Sandy Bridge   Intel   2010-11-06
X.Org Server 1.9.2 Should Be Here By Christmas   X.Org   2010-10-26
Holy Crap! You Can Use XvMC With ATI Gallium3D!   AMD   2010-10-25
There May Still Be Hope For R600g Supporting XvMC, VDPAU   AMD   2010-10-22
AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series Graphics Cards On Linux?   Radeon   2010-10-21
Intel X-Video Sandybridge Support Arrives   Intel   2010-10-21
What Parts Of X.Org Should Be Killed With Fire?   X.Org   2010-09-17
Intel Pulls In ShadowFB Support For KMS   Intel   2010-09-08
NVIDIA 256.52 Linux Driver Brings Fixes   NVIDIA   2010-08-28
Nouveau In Linux 2.6.36 Has NVIDIA Fermi Mode-Setting   Nouveau   2010-08-09
Intel's GEM-Free UMS Driver Still Doesn't Fix Things   Intel   2010-08-08
NVIDIA Puts Out Two Drivers, Including For OpenGL 4.1   NVIDIA   2010-07-31
A New Release Of The AMD XvBA Back-End To VA-API   AMD   2010-07-09
xf86-video-ati 6.13.1 Driver Released   AMD   2010-07-06
There's A Gallium3D State Tracker For VDPAU   Mesa   2010-06-28
AROS (The Free AmigaOS) Gets With Gallium3D   Mesa   2010-05-21
The Lightspark Flash Player Reaches Beta   Proprietary Software   2010-05-18
What Were Novell's Original Goals With RadeonHD?   Radeon   2010-05-06
NVIDIA 195.36.24 Linux Driver Released   NVIDIA   2010-04-26
Whoops, ATI's Evergreen Will Bring A New Driver   AMD   2010-04-13
It's Time To Test The Graphics In Fedora 13   Fedora   2010-04-12
Open-Source ATI Evergreen Acceleration Builds Up   AMD   2010-04-08
xf86-video-ati 6.13.0 X.Org Driver Released   AMD   2010-04-05
Intel 2.11.0 X.Org Driver Released   Intel   2010-03-29
Fluendo's New Codecs Support VDPAU, VA-API   Free Software   2010-03-25
xf86-video-intel 2.11 RC3 Is Here   Intel   2010-03-22
Ubuntu 10.04 To Hang Onto Old Intel Driver   Intel   2010-03-09