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samuelmukoti

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Nvidia PureVideo & AMD/ATI's XvBA Coming to Linux
« on: November 16, 2008, 10:14:46 am »
Hi,

I'm really excited about the latest developments and the work that AMD and Nvidia are doing to bring better driver support on our favorite platform! ( http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_180_vdpau&num=1)

This really excites me coz it means HD video doesn't have to bring the CPU to its knees anymore.  I really hoped AMD would be first to market with a driver that has a similar feature parity to its Windows version, ever since they released specs for some of their GPUs and are much more OSS friendly, sadly that hasn't been the case - we still don't have good support for the AMD GPUs in LMCE and Desktop linux generally.

Haven't seen anything about Xine support but at-least Nvidia has a MPlayer patch - which is promising.

Will be patching my mplayer to see what effect it has on my MediaDirector

Go Nvidia, go AMD - let see who wins the race

regards,

Sam

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Re: Nvidia PureVideo & AMD/ATI's XvBA Coming to Linux
« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2008, 04:45:16 pm »
For this to be ultimately useful to us, both Xine_Playe and Mplayer need to be patched.

-Thom