NVIDIA VAAPI Driver 0.0.5 Released With AV1 Acceleration

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVIDIA VAAPI Driver 0.0.5 Released With AV1 Acceleration

Started recently was an experimental VA-API implementation atop NVIDIA's NVDEC interface. This independently-developed, open-source implementation has successfully allowed Mozilla Firefox's VA-API video acceleration to work with NVIDIA's proprietary driver with its NVDEC video decoding interface. A new release of nvidia-vaapi-driver is now available that now offers AV1 support too...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver-0.5

[M@GOid]

I like to imagine that this project started with something like this:

"No VA-API support? I will build my own..."

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[skeevy420]

I like to imagine that this project started with something like this:

I hate you so much. Just seeing that picture earwigged me with Whalers on the Moon.

My head has that running on a loop.

It was I've Got a Feeling. You ruined my Beatles earwig.

[slagiewka]

This project gives me hope that in case I end up using Nvidia card I will at least get VA-API support. But they already provided GBM API so who knows how tables will turn.

[cl333r]

This project gives me hope that in case I end up using Nvidia card I will at least get VA-API support. But they already provided GBM API so who knows how tables will turn.

The first rule of Linux Club is: you do not buy a Nvidia card.

[kylew77]

The first rule of Linux Club is: you do not buy a Nvidia card.

I was at first a FreeBSD fan and their support back in the 11.x series was so bad for anything BUT Nvidia that I bought a cheap Nvidia card. Now I am an OpenBSD fan and they work with anything BUT an Nvidia card. Funny how the tables turned.

[kylew77]

Anyone know if this support is just for Linux or extends to Nvidia's excellent Unix driver that supports FreeBSD and Solaris?

[cl333r]

I was at first a FreeBSD fan and their support back in the 11.x series was so bad for anything BUT Nvidia that I bought a cheap Nvidia card. Now I am an OpenBSD fan and they work with anything BUT an Nvidia card. Funny how the tables turned.

I know, I was kidding. I'm only using AMD for the past 2 years, before that - 20 years on Nvidia because AMD's drivers always sucked even on Windows and Intel's graphics were (and are) too weak.

[MastaG]

I hope they'll also fix their GBM implementation so it properly works with multiple GPU's.
e.g. when your laptop also has an Intel GPU.

[M@GOid]

I hate you so much. Just seeing that picture earwigged me with Whalers on the Moon.

My head has that running on a loop.

It was I've Got a Feeling. You ruined my Beatles earwig.

Beatles? Argh, I did you a favor. They were never the same after Paul as exchanged by that clone.