On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Anders Østhus <[email protected]> wrote: > For Elisa to have support for VDPAU, gstreamer (the multimedia framework > Elisa is using) needs to support VDPAU. As for now, it doesn't. > > There is a bug open for it > (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=561225) but so far, nothing has > happened as far as I know.
Thanks for that - I will keep an eye on it. Since Gstreamer (and thus Elisa) cannot play back HD video via VDPAU my next question is - can I get Elisa to launch an external application (for example, a VDPAU patched mplayer) for certain types of video (based on extension I imagine)? Many thanks, Fred. > > -- > Anders Østhus > [email protected] > > Friedrich Clausen wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I was wondering if Elisa has support for NVIDIA's new "Video Decode >> and Presentation API for Unix" (VDPAU)? Please see: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDPAU >> >> For more details. >> >> Failing that, can Elisa launch an external player to playback HD videos? >> >> Many thanks, >> >> Fred. > >
