NVIDIA Driver Brings PureVideo Features To Linux

[stevetv]

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_180_vdpau&num=1

"Over the course of the past few months we have been saying that the NVIDIA 180 Linux driver to be released in the fourth quarter of 2008 would hold in store a few interesting features. Well, today that closed-source driver has been released in beta form. This driver adds a new VDPAU API, which provides PureVideo-like features on Linux, adds in CUDA 2.1 support, new workstation performance optimizations, X Render improvements, and other improvements."

sounds exciting :)

[sixstringmonk]

IMHO purevideo accelerated media players should be included in the repos as soon as they hit stability.

[managementboy]

IMHO purevideo accelerated media players should be included in the repos as soon as they hit stability.

The current TRUNK has had some development in this area. 0.21-fixes will not get these features backported.

Edit: check out http://www.avenard.org/media/Home.html as, against my own statement, it has been ported and works 100%