[MPlayer-users] Nvidia driver 185 not supported anymore for vdpau in mplayer svn?

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 03:40:05PM +0200, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 18:24 +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > I just checked out the latest mplayer svn tree, and it fails to detect
> > vdpau.
> > 
> > I have nvidia drivers v185 installed:
> 
> 
> > $ grep -i VDP_VIDEO_MIXER_FEATURE_HIGH_QUALITY_SCALING_L1 /usr/include/vdpau/*
> > 
> > no matches found. So newer driver is a requirement nowadays? 
> 
> MPlayer svn requires a 190.* VDPAU driver. However if want to use VDPAU
> then you're better off using the git repo instead of svn (easiest built
> using git://repo.or.cz/mplayer-build.git). Compared to svn it has a
> significantly improved VDPAU implementation, and it should also work
> with older NVIDIA drivers.
> 

Thanks for the link.
Is the git repo replacing svn or what's the deal here? 

-- Pasi