On 29 Jan 2009, at 22:35, John Martin wrote: > Darren J Moffat wrote: >> John Martin wrote: >>>>> Are there any plans for integrating this with any actual >>>>> applications, or with gstreamer or other desktop video apps? >>> NVIDIA already provides patches to the ffmpeg library and the >>> mplayer application >>> to enable VDPAU. >> >> A pity OpenSolaris doesn't have ffmpeg or mplayer though. >> > There are non-technical issues which make delivery of > certain video codecs by a commercial entity difficult.
It would have seemed to me that a library such as this nicely circumvents the problem area of delivering certain video codecs in software. If this could be used by gstreamer it would mean that (at least on NVidia hardware) modern multimedia codec support could be available out-of-box. -M
