On 2009-08-27 16:20, Kevin Ross wrote:
From: Ron Johnson [mailto:ron.l.john...@cox.net]
Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 1:44 PM
On 2009-08-27 15:38, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Thu,27.Aug.09, 04:14:50, Ron Johnson wrote:
The special steps discussed in the thread are only
required if you want
to get the last bit of hardware acceleration and 3D graphics.
And, on older nvidia cards, h/w-accelerated MPEG-2 decoding.
... and on newer cards accelerated h264 decoding (VDPAU).
Sadly, no nvidia cards that I know of have *both*.
Ron, are you referring to the XvMC extensions for MPEG-2 acceleration?
Yup.
If
so, this has been superceded by VDPAU. So any VDPAU-capable card can also
do MPEG-2 acceleration.
Interesting, thanks.
From poking around with Google, though, it doesn't appear yet that
any apps use VDPAU to accelerate MPEG-2, and vlc (my favorite video
player) hasn't yet migrated the VDPAU h264 patches into the mainline
yet.
If I've missed anything, plz correct me!
So it looks like I'll stick with my 7300 for now...
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