[mythtv-users] FYI - New HW video accellAPI from NVIDIA
Nicolas Will
nico at youplala.net
Fri Nov 14 18:50:06 UTC 2008
On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 10:28 -0800, Andy Ritger wrote:
> I'm pleased to announce a new video API for Unix and Unix-like platforms,
> and a technology preview implementation of this API from NVIDIA.
>
> The API is called VDPAU (Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix).
>
> The current API documentation is here:
>
> ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/vdpau/doxygen/html/index.html
>
> Some highlights of VDPAU:
>
> * Defines an API for GPU-accelerated decode of MPEG-1, MPEG-2, H.264, and
> VC-1 bitstreams.
> * Defines an API for post-processing of decoded video, including
> temporal and spatial deinterlacing, inverse telecine, and noise
> reduction.
> * Defines an API for timestamp-based presentation of final video
> frames.
> * Defines an API for compositing sub-picture, on-screen display,
> and other UI elements.
>
> Note that VDPAU does not address content protection.
>
> Some highlights/limitations of NVIDIA's current implementation:
>
> * Supported on NVIDIA GPUs with the NVIDIA second generation video
> processors (see the end of this announcement for a complete GPU list).
> * Currently, only one video stream can be decoded at a time; we hope
> to lift this restriction eventually.
> * Available in the 180.06 NVIDIA public beta release:
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_180.06.html
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_180.06.html
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd_180.06.html
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/solaris_display_180.06.html
>
> The VDPAU support in the NVIDIA 180.06 beta release is still very
> preliminary. We are aware of cases of visual corruption and in some
> cases GPU hangs. We will be working on these issues over the next
> several NVIDIA driver releases.
>
> While NVIDIA's VDPAU implementation is not ready for end user use yet,
> it should be far enough along that interested application developers
> can begin working with it.
>
> Additionally, NVIDIA has developed patches to ffmpeg and MPlayer to
> demonstrate a video player using VDPAU:
>
> ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/vdpau/mplayer-vdpau-3076399.tar.bz2
>
> These patches include changes against libavcodec, libavutil, ffmpeg,
> and MPlayer itself; they may serve as an example of how to use VDPAU.
>
> Once we do some further testing, bugfixing, and cleanup, we will
> contribute the MPlayer patches to the MPlayer developers.
>
>
> If other hardware vendors are interested, they are welcome to also
> provide implementations of VDPAU. The VDPAU API was designed to allow
> a vendor backend to be selected at run time.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Andy Ritger
> Manager, NVIDIA Linux Graphics Driver
>
>
>
> VDPAU is currently supported on the following NVIDIA GPUs:
>
> Desktop GPUs:
> GeForce 200 Series
> GeForce 9 Series
> GeForce 86xx Series
> GeForce 85xx Series
> GeForce 84xx Series
> GeForce 8800 GTS 512
> GeForce 8800 GT
> GeForce 8800 GS
>
> Mobile GPUs:
> GeForce 98xxM
> GeForce 9700M
> GeForce 96xxM
> GeForce 9500M
> GeForce 9300M
> GeForce 9200M
> GeForce 8800M
> GeForce 8800M GTS
> GeForce 8800M GTX
> GeForce 8600M
>
> Motherboard GPUs:
> GeForce 9400
> GeForce 9300
> GeForce 9100
> GeForce 8300
> GeForce 8200
>
> VC-1 support in NVIDIA's VDPAU implementation currently requires GeForce
> 9300 GS, GeForce 9200M GS, GeForce 9300M GS, or GeForce 9300M GS.
>
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