NVIDIA Releases New Video API For Linux : VDPAU

[Duranxl]

There's the following note in the VDPAU readme docs:
"VC-1 support in NVIDIA's VDPAU implementation currently requires GeForce
9300 GS, GeForce 9200M GS, GeForce 9300M GS, or GeForce 9300M GS."
Given that those particular cards are pretty uncommon, chances are that you won't yet have WMV support

Driver 180.06 has a lot of problems playing anything but the samples, particularly mkv files. I highly recommend moving to 180.08 (ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/180.08/) which seems to have fixed some of the issues

1) What does VC-1 have to do with .mkv & wmv3? I'm not using the VC-1 codec.
2) I'm on 180.08 right now and i still can't play 720p .mkv

[noisymime]

1) What does VC-1 have to do with .mkv & wmv3? I'm not using the VC-1 codec.
2) I'm on 180.08 right now and i still can't play 720p .mkv

1) Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought wmv3 used VC-1? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VC-1#WMV3

2) Well it is still beta after all. 180.08 certainly improved things for me, although its far from perfect.