VDPAU: Nvidia 185.13 released
The release of Nvidia driver 185.13 was a bit confusing to me, because I couldn’t find any change log, which describes, what have changed, or added to the new release. Only after browsing and searching...
View ArticleCoreAVC 1.9.5 released
I didn’t intend to write about CoreAVC anymore, since VDPAU from NVIDIA is doing its job more than excellently for me. Major parts of this Blog are actually about it. Nevertheless I’ve read through the...
View ArticleVDPAU: Nvidia 180.41 released
Nvidia released on 20th of March his new VDPAU capable driver for Linux. Here’s the related part from their changelog, regarding VDPAU: Fixed corruption decoding H.264 clips with pictures where...
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VDPAU: stable 180.44 and 185.19 beta driver
There are two major highlights about the two last released Nvidia VDPAU drivers. The first one is, that the stable driver 180.44 fixed an ugly bug in the x86_64 branch, concerning the VC-1 playback....
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VDPAU and Window Manager on Jaunty Jackalope – Ubuntu 9.04
Today I did it. I’ve upgraded my system from Intrepid Ibex(8.10) onto Jaunty Jackalope (9.04). My Ubuntu x86_64 installation offered me, as always, a couple of new packages for update, and as I wanted...
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New Mplayer slows down AVCHD footage
I’ve built the latest mplayer trunk (r29664) in order being able to play back 3gp videos with sound. All was fine and my 3gp videos had sound after I’ve installed the appropriate libraries, built and...
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[HOWTO] HDTV with Karmic Koala (Ubuntu 9.10) using VDR, Xine or Xineliboutput
VDPAU was one of the big topics here on this blog for quite a while. Mplayer was well known to work together with VDPAU and Nvidia’s graphics cards >= 8xxx from almost the very beginning. But not...
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XBMC on Karmic with VDPAU and VDR
If I read the title “XBMC on Karmic with VDPAU and VDR“, then I think not many people out there, beside the experts, understand what this is all about. It’s about a good looking Media Center for Linux,...
View Article[HOWTO] Workaround for a broken AVCHD playback with VDPAU on Karmic
The release of Karmic Koala inspired me to upgrade to this new Ubuntu 9.10 version and also to install the latest My Media System (a light Media Center for Linux), wich is version 1.1.2 actually. All...
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Mplayer-vaapi on Oneiric (Ubuntu 11.10) for AMD/ATI HowTo
Mplayer-vaapi is an official branch from the mplayer project team and can be checked out via subversion. VAAPI is an video output device for hardware accelerated HD content playback (VC1, H264). VLC,...
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