Posted on Saturday, November 15 2008 @ 8:43 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Earlier today we shared that NVIDIA is bringing PureVideo
features to Linux through a major update in their binary display driver.
The NVIDIA 180.06 driver adds VDPAU support on Linux, Solaris, and
FreeBSD operating systems, with VDPAU being a set of APIs designed by
NVIDIA to accelerate video decoding, provide post-processing
capabilities, timstamp-based presentation of video frames, and
compositing of sub-picture elements. We have now had the time to
benchmark the Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix and have seen
the benefits of PureVideo features finally arriving on alternative
platforms.
Read more
at Phoronix.