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NVIDIA Releases New Video API For Linux

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the finally-starting-to-play-ball dept.

Ashmash writes "Phoronix is reporting on a new Linux driver nVidia is about to release that brings PureVideo features to Linux. This video API will reportedly be in nVidia's 180 series driver for Linux, Solaris, and *BSD. PureVideo has been around for several nVidia product generations, but it's the first time they're bringing this feature to these non-Windows operating systems to provide an improved multimedia experience. This new API is named VDPAU, and is described as: 'The Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix (VDPAU) provides a complete solution for decoding, post-processing, compositing, and displaying compressed or uncompressed video streams. These video streams may be combined (composited) with bitmap content, to implement OSDs and other application user interfaces.'"

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  1. This isn't a new nvidia driver by LingNoi · · Score: 5, Informative

    The summary confused me a little into thinking this was a new nvidia driver. It is in fact new features being added to their closed source driver.

  2. Re:ATI by Lorkki · · Score: 5, Informative

    You might be interested to know that ATI's equivalent was also revealed a short while ago.

  3. Re:Form follows code. by RedWizzard · · Score: 5, Informative

    nVidia have released patches for libavcodec, libavutil, and ffmpeg. So most Linux software should pick up support in pretty quick time.