Misc

FFmpeg Gains VDPAU MPEG-4 ASP Acceleration

What we were in the process of writing about when we discovered MPlayer's support for most Blu-ray and HD-DVD codecs was that there is now support for MPEG-4 ASP decoding with VDPAU (NVIDIA's Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix) in the mainline FFmpeg tree. Support for acceleration MPEG-4 ASP was introduced in NVIDIA's most recent revision to their PureVideo technology and now the software support is properly in place. The current NVIDIA graphics cards that support MPEG-4 ASP decoding are the GeForce G210, G210M, GT 220 (we previously provided a NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 review under Linux), GT 230M, GT 240M, GT 240, GTS 250M, and GTS 260M...

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