[MPlayer-dev-eng] nVidia released CUDA accelrated video decoding

[The Wanderer]

Benjamin Zores wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> In case anybody here is interested in this ... nVidia released its
> latest Linux drivers on today which provide their PureVideo GPU
> decoding capabilities. Thus, it is now possible to use GPU to have
> accelerated h/w decoding for MPEG 1/2, H.264 and VC-1 using
> proprietary nVidia driver on cards that support CUDA, i.e. GeForce 8
> and above.
> 
> More info on http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_180_vdpau&num=1
> 
> And for once, they did a pretty good job as they do provide patches
> for ffmpeg/mplayer
> to add support to their new technology.
> 
> Some dev with CUDA capable GPU might look at
> ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/vdpau/mplayer-vdpau-3076399.tar.bz2

I'm not a dev, but I do have an 8800GT, which if I'm not mistaken is
CUDA-capable - if no one in a more convenient position (such as an
actual developer) has one, I can do tests and the like if requested.

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