On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Moinak Ghosh <moinakg at belenix.org> wrote: > Hi Fellas, > > ? Just saw this notice on the Mplayer website: > > First is to use the newly added VDPAU output. It allows the newer > Nvidia video cards to decode the video without using much CPU. It > is in SVN MPlayer (Nvidia binary driver 180.37 or newer required), > you can find known bugs and report bugs HERE. (Linux, Solaris > and FreeBSD only) > How to get the SVN version is described on the download page > and snapshot tarballs are available as well. > > Very cool! I checked this out on the desktop PC at my parent's home which has a decent NVIDIA card. Very cool feature indeed! Watched the Blue-ray rip with around 10-15% CPU usage <OT> Must try compiling this on OSX as well </OT>
On a side note, if you do have a decent/supported NVIDIA card, do check out CUDA: http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_home.html# CUDA is supported by NVIDIA on almost all OSes other than Solaris/OpenSolaris. http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_get.html (See the OS drop down list ) -- Manish
