[MPlayer-dev-eng] New Video Decode and Presentation API

[Benjamin Zores]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Nico Sabbi <Nicola.Sabbi at poste.it> wrote:
> On Friday 14 November 2008 19:36:12 Andy Ritger wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> [snip]
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>
> thanks. Did you measure -approximately- how much speedup
> can be obtained when decoding HD H264 on an modern pc
> (core2 or amd cpu) ?

See benchs here:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_vdpau&num=1

Ben