Looks like we can support VDPAU in applications like mplayer and xine now. There's an official opensource library that provides the VDPAU API, the implementation parts are included in the Nvidia driver.
-------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: Aaron Plattner <[email protected]> > Reply-to: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ANNOUNCE] libvdpau 0.2 > Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:58:33 -0700 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I'm pleased to announce the first release of libvdpau as a standalone > library. This package contains the libvdpau wrapper library and the > libvdpau_trace debugging library, along with the header files needed > to build VDPAU applications. To actually use a VDPAU device, you need > a vendor-specific implementation library. Currently, this is always > libvdpau_nvidia. You can override the driver name by setting the > VDPAU_DRIVER environment variable. > > These files are also currently shipped as part of the NVIDIA driver > package. We're going to continue to do that for now, but the > long-term goal is to ship only libvdpau_nvidia in that package. > > git://anongit.freedesktop.org/~aplattner/libvdpau > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~aplattner/libvdpau > > git tag: libvdpau-0.2 > > http://people.freedesktop.org/~aplattner/vdpau/libvdpau-0.2.tar.gz > MD5: e0641a208839eb88fe7c01ee5af83735 libvdpau-0.2.tar.gz > SHA1: 9d290f2baea915beb8d395f96246608716dbdf95 libvdpau-0.2.tar.gz > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJKsobZAAoJEHYgpP6LHaLQ6JAIAImtbxJSd9RfhqMIYt0Sr6z9 > CqY/9mRJp8Cp/dxrqi+an3Xu1MxgIVIz+KOBG0x6h+BiISVKzoWexNBHnco6hu2r > tjbPgp5pdQ3YBau/cUe+MbZKJpALf1vmzDGhBXm3DDG7H7+Wj1clO6XlDLGy74OC > TLoLbRNQtSFNEKgbIPTfLsKeCL0ep4VvPjxCjmLfDpvjkrt0UItASSGclnHsZ2gY > 4asnSnmlfDnJ40cEBb4eepmQMA1J2WecyO7vwe6I16Ecnh+neU7+Kqys2piuAt2x > FsrBF5I7zc1g/NwVRrmUj6p4Pt37jXouFLPNWbSJxGoXFeDAEu452e85we/dFZs= > =MVZe > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > xorg-announce mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-announce
