XBMC for Linux VDPAU - NVIDIA GPU video decoding support (now in the mainline SVN)

Thanks for this Motd2k !

This is one of the best things EVER happened to me.

I tried all x264 mkv and mp4 files i have and NONE of them had problems playing even the ones play fine which were not be possible to accelerate with windows dxva.

I have 6% of cpu utilization playing back the killasample
Subtitles work, zoom works ! Now we will have a lot of free CPU time having for possible software upscaling or HD audio decoding etc.

This implementation will be far better than any hardware accelerated stuff on any platform i saw.

I will donate right away to the team.
Keep up the excellent work.

Thank you once again.

Im looking forward to the day this is stable enough to get in the SVN builds =) Keep up the good work!

Znubbis Wrote:Im looking forward to the day this is stable enough to get in the SVN builds =) Keep up the good work!

And me, looking forward for this to work with ATI-card...

How long after Nvidia-card do you guys thing it will come to ATI?

/Söder

When ATI start supporting Linux with a driver i guess, or do they have one already ?

VDPAU is hardware agnostic, but I doubt we will see ATI or Intel backends. They both plan their own HW accel APIs.

Znubbis Wrote:When ATI start supporting Linux with a driver i guess, or do they have one already ?

ATI has not even gave an API for their decoding engine. We don't know yet how it will be implemented. From the news it seems they will have a completely different API for this.

Intel as i heard will probably use VDPAU API in the future driver releases.

We can never know.

Znubbis Wrote:When ATI start supporting Linux with a driver i guess, or do they have one already ?

Yes.
ATI Catalyst™ 9.1 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver
http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux...adeon.html

/Söder

alanwww1 Wrote:ATI has not even gave an API for their decoding engine. We don't know yet how it will be implemented. From the news it seems they will have a completely different API for this.

Intel as i heard will probably use VDPAU API in the future driver releases.

We can never know.

OK, so if I want to use a GFX for my HTPC, I can forget to use my GIGABYTE MA78GM-S2H with the ATI Radeon HD 3200.

What Nvidia card is then best to buy, if only gonna be used for xbmc, and no gaming or what so ever..? Is it possible to have it passive, with no fan?

/Söder

Nvidia 9xxx should be ok (9400 or 9500) with low power consumption.

Or by and nvidia chipset motherboard (8200, 8300 or 9300, 9400) There are a lot of threads about Asus P5N7A-VM which is a great board.

alanwww1 Wrote:Nvidia 9xxx should be ok (9400 or 9500) with low power consumption.

Or by and nvidia chipset motherboard (8200, 8300 or 9300, 9400) There are a lot of threads about Asus P5N7A-VM which is a great board.

Are there any motherboards like this that works with AMD 4850 cpu?

/Söder