Good news! Competition with Intel benefits us all :)
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Goga777 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FROM XORG lIST > > > I'm pleased to announce a new video API for Unix and Unix-like platforms, > and a technology preview implementation of this API from NVIDIA. > > The API is called VDPAU (Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix). > > The current API documentation is here: > > ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/vdpau/doxygen/html/index.html > > Some highlights of VDPAU: > > * Defines an API for GPU-accelerated decode of MPEG-1, MPEG-2, H.264, > and > VC-1 bitstreams. > * Defines an API for post-processing of decoded video, including > temporal and spatial deinterlacing, inverse telecine, and noise > reduction. > * Defines an API for timestamp-based presentation of final video > frames. > * Defines an API for compositing sub-picture, on-screen display, > and other UI elements. > > Note that VDPAU does not address content protection. > > Some highlights/limitations of NVIDIA's current implementation: > > * Supported on NVIDIA GPUs with the NVIDIA second generation video > processors (see the end of this announcement for a complete GPU > list). > * Currently, only one video stream can be decoded at a time; we hope > to lift this restriction eventually. > * Available in the 180.06 NVIDIA public beta release: > http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_180.06.html > http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_180.06.html > http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd_180.06.html > http://www.nvidia.com/object/solaris_display_180.06.html > > The VDPAU support in the NVIDIA 180.06 beta release is still very > preliminary. We are aware of cases of visual corruption and in some > cases GPU hangs. We will be working on these issues over the next > several NVIDIA driver releases. > > While NVIDIA's VDPAU implementation is not ready for end user use yet, > it should be far enough along that interested application developers > can begin working with it. > > Additionally, NVIDIA has developed patches to ffmpeg and MPlayer to > demonstrate a video player using VDPAU: > > ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/vdpau/mplayer-vdpau-3076399.tar.bz2 > > These patches include changes against libavcodec, libavutil, ffmpeg, > and MPlayer itself; they may serve as an example of how to use VDPAU. > > Once we do some further testing, bugfixing, and cleanup, we will > contribute the MPlayer patches to the MPlayer developers. > > > If other hardware vendors are interested, they are welcome to also > provide implementations of VDPAU. The VDPAU API was designed to allow > a vendor backend to be selected at run time. > > > Thanks, > Andy Ritger > Manager, NVIDIA Linux Graphics Driver > > > > VDPAU is currently supported on the following NVIDIA GPUs: > > Desktop GPUs: > GeForce 200 Series > GeForce 9 Series > GeForce 86xx Series > GeForce 85xx Series > GeForce 84xx Series > GeForce 8800 GTS 512 > GeForce 8800 GT > GeForce 8800 GS > > Mobile GPUs: > GeForce 98xxM > GeForce 9700M > GeForce 96xxM > GeForce 9500M > GeForce 9300M > GeForce 9200M > GeForce 8800M > GeForce 8800M GTS > GeForce 8800M GTX > GeForce 8600M > > Motherboard GPUs: > GeForce 9400 > GeForce 9300 > GeForce 9100 > GeForce 8300 > GeForce 8200 > > VC-1 support in NVIDIA's VDPAU implementation currently requires GeForce > 9300 GS, GeForce 9200M GS, GeForce 9300M GS, or GeForce 9300M GS. > > _______________________________________________ > xorg mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr@linuxtv.org > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
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