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XBMC Media Player Has Support For NVIDIA VDPAU

The Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix is one of the best innovations to occur within the proprietary NVIDIA Linux display driver in recent times. VDPAU allows offloading much of the video acceleration work from the CPU onto the GPU, which results in a $20 CPU and $30 GPU being able to sustain HD video playback and great video benchmark results. The VDPAU API was just introduced late last year with the introduction of an updated NVIDIA driver, but since then support for this video API has appeared in MPlayer / FFmpeg, MythTV, Xine, and VLC...

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