> From: Ron Johnson [mailto:ron.l.john...@cox.net] > Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 2:45 PM > > On 2009-08-27 16:20, Kevin Ross wrote: > >> From: Ron Johnson [mailto:ron.l.john...@cox.net] > >> Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 1:44 PM > >> > >> On 2009-08-27 15:38, Andrei Popescu wrote: > >>> On Thu,27.Aug.09, 04:14:50, Ron Johnson wrote: > >>> > >>>>> The special steps discussed in the thread are only > >> required if you want > >>>>> to get the last bit of hardware acceleration and 3D graphics. > >>>> And, on older nvidia cards, h/w-accelerated MPEG-2 decoding. > >>> ... and on newer cards accelerated h264 decoding (VDPAU). > >> Sadly, no nvidia cards that I know of have *both*. > > > > Ron, are you referring to the XvMC extensions for MPEG-2 > acceleration? > > Yup. > > > > If > > so, this has been superceded by VDPAU. So any > VDPAU-capable card can also > > do MPEG-2 acceleration. > > Interesting, thanks. > > From poking around with Google, though, it doesn't appear yet that > any apps use VDPAU to accelerate MPEG-2, and vlc (my favorite video > player) hasn't yet migrated the VDPAU h264 patches into the mainline > yet. > > If I've missed anything, plz correct me! > > So it looks like I'll stick with my 7300 for now...
I don't use vlc, so I can't speak about it. But the players that I do use, mplayer and MythTV, both accelerate MPEG-2 via VDPAU. Xine supports MPEG-2 via VDPAU. XBMC supports VDPAU, but not for MPEG-2, for some reason. Of course, VDPAU-enabled players are not yet in the Debian archives. All of the above mentioned players I build from source. VDPAU is in the main source tree for those players, so no patching is necessary. One of my Linux boxes is a HTPC. It's great to play full 1080p HD video with almost no CPU usage (never more than 10%). -- Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
