NVIDIA Releases New Video API For Linux

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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is jesus real?

[Anonymous Coward]

We all know that Barack Obama is real, and that he is the messiah. What does he say about taxation? Spread the wealth! It's your patriotic duty to pay taxes! It's not fair for some people to make more than others!

What does Jesus, the fraudulent "son of god" say? "Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesarâ(TM)s, and unto God the things that are Godâ(TM)s". Translation: taxes are bad.

How can these two divergent and polar opposite opinions both come from the messiah? They can't. And therefore Jesus was not the messiah and probably not even real.

Re:is jesus real?

[cloakable]

Um, not sure how you managed to get that quote completely wrong - Jesus was endorsing taxes, not condeming them.

Re:is jesus real?

[DragonWriter]

Black tends to refer to people of dark skin who have mostly descended from Africans.

Which is synonymous with "people of dark skin", since every human being is mostly (entirely, even) descended from Africans.

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[CarpetShark]

Jesus was sitting on the fence on that one if you ask me.

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[Reikk]

Mary's racial background is irrelevant because she was only a surrogate. Despite Jesus being black, he didn't have no baby dady

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[mitzip]

Jesus was not endorsing taxes. All the money was owned by caesar. Jesus was saying if the owner asks for his property back, give it to him. The pharisees were trying to make Jesus publicly encourage people to break the law, to have him arrested. Which is completely different from how taxes in the US operate. In the US your wages are your property. The US Constitution says your property cannot be taxed. All property taxes, including "income taxes" operate in spite of our Constitution, as most of our laws today do.

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[Galactic Dominator]

The constitution does not say your property cannot be taxed. In fact, it says the exact opposite.

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.

Regardless of how much you personally loathe taxes, simply lying about the issue doesn't say much for your intelligence. Try something a little more clever like a good 16th amendment conspiracy or something similar.

Re:is jesus real?

[shutdown -p now]

Jesus was not endorsing taxes. All the money was owned by caesar. Jesus was saying if the owner asks for his property back, give it to him.

Unless you're a strict literalist, Jesus was generally saying that whatever is of the material world, and earthly rulers, truly belongs to those rulers, so as they demand it, you should give it to them. Unless you somehow believe that US is not an earthly state (which would imply that the current president is Jesus himself), any property you have in the US falls under this rule as well.

VDPAU? A new Vulcan emmisary?

[zappepcs]

I'm glad to hear this news. It will be only a matter of time before others follow suit. Time to dust off the resume.. I think soon being a Linux coder will be a useful item on that list.

Linux has suffered some lag with driver releases, and even manufacturer hostility toward Linux. This is the year that I start a side business based on Linux and support for it. Not simply because of this news, but news like this in general. I'm thoroughly impressed with Ubuntu and other distributions to get done what I want to get done.

Anyone (not I have not Googled extensively yet) know of any good sites that detail gaming on Linux? If you do, what is your take on this news?