Your Nvidia 9500GT is an NV96 chip. According to the Nouveau Wiki at http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/VideoAcceleration/ it has the basic VPE2 decoding block and the more useful VP2 decoding block. Support for VP2 acceleration has just been committed to the open-source nouveau driver stack if you want to try removing nvidia-current. Most H.264 videos are supported, but H.264 interlaced videos are not supported .
You will need a 3.11-rc4 or later kernel. The under development Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" currently has kernel 3.11.0-2.5, which is based on the 3.11-rc5 kernel. Otherwise you can install the 3.11-rc5 or later kernel on an earlier Ubuntu release by fetching it from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ and instructions on how to install and uninstall it are at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/MainlineBuilds You will also need either Mesa 9.2 which is scheduled for release this month and which will probably end up in Ubuntu 13.10, or a recent (after Aug 1, 2013) git snapshot of Mesa-devel which should soon be in the xorg-edgers PPA at https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa You will also need to extract the firmware from the NVIDIA binary driver (nvidia-current). See http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/VideoAcceleration/ and http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/VP2/ for further details. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/705754 Title: vdpau-va-driver not working in maverick amd64 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vdpau-video/+bug/705754/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
