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Hardware-Based Video Acceleration Coming To Linux

Posted by kdawson on from the buh-bye-frame-skipping dept.

sammydee writes "Phoronix reports that GPU based video decoding acceleration will be implemented in Gallium3d sometime this year. Drivers currently using Gallium3d include the open source nouveau driver for NVIDIA cards and experimental Intel GMA drivers. This is definitely good news for anybody who has ever tried to play high-definition 1080p content on any CPU older than about a year."

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  1. Re:1080p? by Kugrian · · Score: 5, Funny

    What does this message say? It doesn't display on my computer.

  2. Re:Don't know what to say ... by dotancohen · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've played videos in Linux that were impossible to play in Linux.

    You should try Linux next time.

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