On Sat 19 Feb 2011 at 14:34:41 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/19/2011 02:10 PM, Brian wrote: >> >> With NVidia the almost automatic response is to dive into the proprietry >> driver pool. It seems to me that unless 3D is a need (used by less than >> 5% of users) or the card is not supported well, you are going to be >> served well by the nouveau driver. > > Does nouveau support vdpau (which, even on the old 8400GS, > *significantly* reduces CPU usage when watching video)?
I'd never come across vdpau but it only took me a few seconds to find this post from someone associated with the development of nouveau: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/2010-May/005725.html HTH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110219232348.GT32679@desktop
