Hi, as far as I think to know ;) (quite unsure about this), NVidia has introduced a new protocol (?something like this), which is useful for less-CPU-consumpting display of video streams.
MPlayer (and may be other video-related applikations) does support vdpau. First tests on my Linux-box with mplayer -vo vdpau <video> results in a movie "display" with best audio, no video at all and concerns from mplayer: [vdpau] Error when calling vdp_device_create_x11: 1 Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device. Unfortunately I have absolutely no clue for waht I have to search for. What/where I have to reconfig/recompile/install/etc. to make my Linux box vdpau-aware. Or is it such a new thing, that I better have to keep my fingers off that? Have a nice sunday! Best regards, Meino Cramer -- Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simply Text. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html In a world without fences and walls nobody needs gates and windows.