Re: NVIDIA Releases New Video API For Linux : VDPAU
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Originally Posted by
mips
How would one test to see if video runs better? Are there any benchmarking tools or is the eye good enough?
I have a 9600GT and access to the 180.06-1 beta driver in the Arch linux repo so I could test it but I would not know what to look for.
EDIT: If you have a good file to test with maybe pm with a link to it, as long it is not to big.
You can get 50 mb .mkv files for free from www.bleachportal.net :wink:
You can download the entire bleach anime there, just make a free account (I haven't had any spam mail from them, and I have been registered for a couple of weeks now)
You can directly download all episoded from their archive at hight speedd, and the first 160 episoded are all .mkv.
50 mb isn't too big, right?
Re: NVIDIA Releases New Video API For Linux : VDPAU
@ mips
the MKVs I was referring to were all 720p and usually they start freezing/legging after 5+ minutes while the link you mentioned have lesser than 720p.
You can compare playback, before and after installing 180.06, for any HD content like this one:
Full HD _1080p_ trailer of new Bond movie Quantum of Solace :
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http://ve3d.ign.com/videos/play/31520/PC/Quantum-of-Solace
Re: NVIDIA Releases New Video API For Linux : VDPAU
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Originally Posted by
eragon100
You can get 50 mb .mkv files for free from
www.bleachportal.net :wink:
You can download the entire bleach anime there, just make a free account (I haven't had any spam mail from them, and I have been registered for a couple of weeks now)
You can directly download all episoded from their archive at hight speedd, and the first 160 episoded are all .mkv.
50 mb isn't too big, right?
50MB is fine.
I'm busy downloading episode one of bleach as well as about 50MB of sample files from the Matroska site.
Re: NVIDIA Releases New Video API For Linux : VDPAU
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Originally Posted by
Jags_FL
Full HD _1080p_ trailer of new Bond movie Quantum of Solace :
Code:
http://ve3d.ign.com/videos/play/31520/PC/Quantum-of-Solace
Thanks, I just realised I already have the 1080p QoS movie trailer as well as Happy feet one.
Re: NVIDIA Releases New Video API For Linux : VDPAU
Feedback
Just installing the 180.06 driver provides no noticeable performance difference in the video quality or cpu usage. Tested in Dragon Player, SMPlayer & VLC
The application obviously does not know about VDPAU
I'm going to 'try' and patch mplayer to support VDPAU to see what gives.
EDIT: I cannot get the patched mplayer to build, will have to figure it out somehow.
Re: NVIDIA Releases New Video API For Linux : VDPAU
Thanks mips.
OK, so we need apps to support/utilize VDPAU. If there's noticeable difference and as per Phoronix benchmarks, there is, then app developers will soon start supporting VDPAU.
Re: NVIDIA Releases New Video API For Linux : VDPAU
Why aren't they supporting older chipsets like the one on my nforce 630a motherboard. I believe its a geforce 7050, and it does support PureVideo.
Why no driver support in linux?
Re: NVIDIA Releases New Video API For Linux : VDPAU
That is odd that they do not support the 8800GTS 320
Re: NVIDIA Releases New Video API For Linux : VDPAU
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Originally Posted by
TomtheWombat
Why no driver support in linux?
Because VDPAU only supports the second generation of PureVideo. Maybe they will add the first generation in the future. Maybe not.