Elisa uses GStreamer and Fluendo provides GStreamer codecs for Linux and soon for Windows.
Those codecs are highly optimized and there should be a VDPAU enabled version soon. Hope this helps, Julien Moutte, FLUENDO S.A. Friedrich Clausen wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Olivier Tilloy <[email protected]> wrote: >> Friedrich Clausen a écrit : >>> 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)? >> This is not possible, but wouldn't be too hard to implement if you have >> some python skills. Now, really integrating the external player with >> Elisa's controls and OSD would prove more difficult for sure. > > I would certainly like learn Python and take a look at this - time > permitting. As for having a unified look and feel - yeah, once mplayer > is launched as an external app, it will look and behave like mplayer > but this is a sacrifice I am willing to make for smooth 1080p > playback. Besides, once gstreamer has full VDPAU support, launching > mplayer to play these files will be deprecated anyway. > > Cheers, > > Fred. > >>> Many thanks, >>> >>> Fred. >> Cheers, >> >> Olivier >> >>>> -- >>>> 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.
