There have been a number of fixes and releases since my initial batch of VDPAU testing, so it was time for an update.
The changes from the original test setup are as follows
Nvidia 185.19 Video driver
mythtv 1:0.21.0+fixes-20453-openglvdpau-0ubuntu2
Jean-Yves has applied a number of fixed to his MythTV builds that have resolved many of the playback issues. A […]
Finally had time to try out VDPAU in combination with MythTV. The MythTV team have implemented VDPAU support in yet to be released 0.22, but I want to try the backport to 0.21 developed by Jean-Yves Avenard.
Test Setup
Rather than using a laptop I moved onto one of the myPVR test environments, with the addition of […]
Well it is finally time to test NVidia’s VDPAU support under Linux.
Test Setup
Dell Inspiron 1420 Laptop
NVidia GeForce 8400M GS 128MB Video
Intel Core 2 Duo T7500 @ 2.20GHz
3GB Ram
Ubuntu 8.10
Nvidia 180.25 Video driver
Compiz disabled
CPU locked in performance mode of 2.2 GHz
mplayer-vdpau-3402051
Hauppage HVR 900 digital tuner
freeview|HD terrestrial signal
Channel Playback Comparison
Stats were collected via vmstat and the following […]
NVidia have announce a new API for hardware accelerated decode of video on Linux and Unix called VDPAU. This is awesome news for the Linux MythTV and Video community as the partial subset of NVidia’s PureVideo functionality provides a dramatic drop in CPU usage when handling complex video codecs like H.264 and VC1.
Linux and Unix […]
