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NVIDIA Driver Brings PureVideo Features To Linux
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wait a minute, not only do Nvidia's drivers (much) more often than not Just Work, but now they have the GPU doing some of the heavy lifting when playing videos?
man, I loves me some open source drivers, but this seems pretty big. Now I'll actually have some decisions to make when I build an HTPC.
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In nvidia's case they support the last two generations of purevideo as opposed to amd which only supports the latest gen umd2. Purevideo 1 quite a bit different (and much more limited) from subsequent pv hardware revisions, that it is probably justified.
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Well. Well. Well. This certainly was unexpected.
While I do like this move, what I don't like in either Nvidia's or AMD's current moves is that they only support their latest generation's video processors, even though the last 2/3/4/5 have the same technology - meaning they could have Purevideo (non-HD) and UVD1 working quite fast using the more advanced code, but they don't.
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There are patches to use the api with mplayer and ffmpeg using apps:
ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/vd...076399.tar.bz2
See http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=123091 but seems only PureVideoHD is supported (ie. only newer cards GF6/7 are not supported)
Once we do some further testing, bugfixing, and cleanup, we will
contribute the MPlayer patches to the MPlayer developers.
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"Before installing the 180.06 driver, be forewarned that it is considered beta quality."
instead, you should use that sentence for every AMD Catlyst release.
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NVIDIA Driver Brings PureVideo Features To Linux
*Falls off chair*
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NVIDIA Driver Brings PureVideo Features To Linux
Phoronix: NVIDIA Driver Brings PureVideo Features To Linux
Over the course of the past few months we have been saying that the NVIDIA 180 Linux driver to be released in the fourth quarter of 2008 would hold in store a few interesting features. Well, today that closed-source driver has been released in beta form. This driver adds a new VDPAU API, which provides PureVideo-like features on Linux, adds in CUDA 2.1 support, new workstation performance optimizations, X Render improvements, and other improvements.
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