Hi all, I heard about this today in response to my post asking about HDMI output on Linux, having seen the 5 letters I decided to look it up:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDPAU This looks very good apparently there is already support in xine and ffmpeg. OSD effects, de-interlace, h.264 decode etc. can all be handed off to an appropriate NVidia GPU (and in fact I can pick up a fanless one that supports VDPAU on Linux for about £40 for a PCI-E card). This looks perfect for media playback allowing HD even with a very slow processor (according to Phoronix): http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_vdpau_gpu&num=1 So anyone wanting to build an HD capable system, this could be a cheap, lower power and lower noise solution. Hopefully the graphics system for Freevo2 will be able to take advantage of this API to accelerate the output and provide shiny OSD display etc :) The mythtv wiki page as a good list of supported cards and the state of the drivers: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/VDPAU ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
