[MPlayer-users] Fwd: cuda acceleration?

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Scott Doty <cr-mplayer <at> ponzo.net> writes:

> Mplayer/mencoder use mmx/sse/etc. ... how about doing something similar with
> gpu's?

Why?
I mean: Which problem that you currently see would be solved with CUDA?
Remember that on GPU's, you can typically only accelerate simple, parallel tasks
while video decoding typically is complicated and (at least to a certain degree)
linear (or hard to parallelise).

Carl Eugen