[MPlayer-users] Using the D510MO Mini-ITX platform for full HD playback

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Oliver Seitz <info <at> vtnd.de> writes:

> @ Rolf Ernst: I can not completely deny that. nvidia has closed-source 
> drivers that almost work like they should. Intel's open source drivers 
> seem to have improved within the last years. VIA also supplies the 
> source of the drivers... but the quality of those drivers seems to me 
> not to be the best. In contrast to intel, for VIA drivers there's 
> absolutely no useful documentation. Some words of really bad english 
> explaining the obvious: How to install the binary drivers.

While it is known not to work too well, VIA also supports VDPAU, so hardware
accelerated decoding is possible with the 4xx and 5xx (if I remember the names
correctly.

Carl Eugen