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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:ATI by Ash-Fox · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ATI was opening up their drivers. The OSS drivers were working well, and Nvidia wasn't doing anything. Nvidia addressed their horrible Linux XRender support, and now this. I may just have to stick with Nvidia in the spring.

    It is actually quite far from the truth.

    You might want to read a blog post I wrote about why nVidia rocks when x.org does not. It's likely to give you more reasons to move over to nVidia over ATi.

    The only thing nVidia is not doing, is making their enhancements opensource.

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  4. Re:ATI by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    who has the better SLI/Crossfire support in their Linux drivers right now, ATI or Nvidia?

    I'm guessing ATI has better Crossfire support right now, while Nvidia has better SLI support...

  5. 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.

  6. Re:ATI by m50d · · Score: 5, Funny

    You'd think that, but actually the level of Crossfire support in both is the same.

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