2009/8/9 <meino.cra...@gmx.de>: > as far as I think to know ;) (quite unsure about this), NVidia > has introduced a new protocol (?something like this), which is > useful for less-CPU-consumpting display of video streams. > > MPlayer (and may be other video-related applikations) does > support vdpau.
Thanks for point out this. I didn't know that NVidia introduced such an important feature. > First tests on my Linux-box with > > mplayer -vo vdpau <video> > > results in a movie "display" with best audio, no video at all > and concerns from mplayer: Your command didn't work for me, too. First, I checked that my video card was capable of supporting this new API. Then, I updated the nvidia video driver and recompiled mplayer. For mplayer, make sure to activate the local use flag vdpau. Manuel Fiorelli
