190.32 (beta) Linux x86/x86-64 released

[bugmenot]

nvidia i love you, you definitely know how to satisfact your customers )))
(hd videos, two istances of WOW with compositing, etc. with a relatively low-end card)

[Kano]

Well i only own a card with class A. Can not test this anyway. GT300 would be interesting too, but ATI is definitely faster with DX11 cards on the market this time.

[deanjo]

Did somebody notice the 1 behind B standing for:

VDPAU FEATURES NOTE 1

GPUs with this note may not support H.264 streams with the following widths:
49, 54, 59, 64, 113, 118, 123, 128 macroblocks (769-784, 849-864, 929-944,
1009-1024, 1793-1808, 1873-1888, 1953-1968, 2033-2048 pixels).

That limitation has been in the notes for a while.

[Kano]

Did somebody notice the 1 behind B standing for:

VDPAU FEATURES NOTE 1

GPUs with this note may not support H.264 streams with the following widths:
49, 54, 59, 64, 113, 118, 123, 128 macroblocks (769-784, 849-864, 929-944,
1009-1024, 1793-1808, 1873-1888, 1953-1968, 2033-2048 pixels).

[Redeeman]

AFIK it's only on the mobiles which actually makes sense as they would benefit more then desktops from the lower power consumption by using vdpau even on mpeg4 layer 2 stuff. It would be interesting to see if it works with stuff encoded with Nero's codec.

erhm.. a better scaling algorithm would seem to be something desktop users could be interrested in aswell?

[deanjo]

Yes, but it's would be intresting to know, are there any connection to hardware capabilities. I'm not sure are those 260M and 250M dx10.1 hardware(shader mode 4.1) and is that something to do with diffenrent feature sets. Becouse OEM desktop graphics cards gt220 and gt230 has that dx10.1 hardware and I think those lower mobile gpu parts are too.

Interestingly enough those oem parts are not even in supported list:
http://http.download.nvidia.com/XFre...ppendix-a.html

Oh they probably will but given that those sku's have yet to officially launch I doubt you would see them in the support list until that happens. As well you can pretty much bet that the GT300 based cards will support it as well.

[tuke81]

AFIK it's only on the mobiles which actually makes sense as they would benefit more then desktops from the lower power consumption by using vdpau even on mpeg4 layer 2 stuff. It would be interesting to see if it works with stuff encoded with Nero's codec.

Yes, but it's would be intresting to know, are there any connection to hardware capabilities. I'm not sure are those 260M and 250M dx10.1 hardware(shader mode 4.1) and is that something to do with diffenrent feature sets. Becouse OEM desktop graphics cards gt220 and gt230 has that dx10.1 hardware and I think those lower mobile gpu parts are too.

Interestingly enough those oem parts are not even in supported list:

http://http.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/190.32/README/appendix-a.html

[deanjo]

I notice that the nvcontrol panel has been updated to 1.20 as well. Probably to accomodate the new fan control.

[deanjo]

Hmm mobile gpus, are there any desktop ones with that kind of feature sets, or is it need of little architecture changes firts(OEM 210 220)? According to this it should be most advanced method by nvidia.

AFIK it's only on the mobiles which actually makes sense as they would benefit more then desktops from the lower power consumption by using vdpau even on mpeg4 layer 2 stuff. It would be interesting to see if it works with stuff encoded with Nero's codec.

[tuke81]

In case your wondering the GPU's that support feature set C are

GeForce GT 230M 0x0A2A C
GeForce GT 240M 0x0A34 C
GeForce G210M 0x0A74 C
GeForce GTS 260M 0x0CA8 C
GeForce GTS 250M 0x0CA9 C

Hmm mobile gpus, are there any desktop ones with that kind of feature sets, or is it need of little architecture changes firts(OEM 210 220)? According to this it should be most advanced method by nvidia.