On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Julien Moutte <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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.
Great news! I will try/buy the Fluendo codecs and eagerly await the VDPAU support. Thanks for all the helpful replies. Cheers, Fred. > > 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. >
