NVIDIA Releases Standalone VDPAU Library

[gbeauche]

[VDPAU has worked out so well and has received critical mass that there is a VDPAU back-end for Intel's VA-API and work is underway on bringing VDPAU support directly to Intel's graphics driver.

Actually, MPEG-2 and H.264 video decode acceleration for Intel G45 (GMA4500HD et al.) is now being developed as VA API driver.

[DoDoENT]

So what are the odds of having VDPAU support in xorg-driver-ati one day in the future?

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVIDIA Releases Standalone VDPAU Library

While NVIDIA developed VDPAU (the Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix, one awesome way of accelerating HD video playback with great results) for use in their proprietary graphics driver, the API itself is open and has been well adopted by multimedia applications. VDPAU has worked out so well and has received critical mass that there is a VDPAU back-end for Intel's VA-API and work is underway on bringing VDPAU support directly to Intel's graphics driver. VDPAU may one day end up being used in other open-source drivers too...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NzU0MA