Hi! I have been studying this issue of video acceleration for video players on Linux for some time - it seems that it it possible - at least with the Nvidia drivers.
My idea for NetRunner would be: is it possible to implement a video player with video card acceleration capabilities when watching HD videos?:huh: Like a solution that would work out of the box in the “installed-on-hdd” mode (not necessarily live), wortking with the NVidia driver.
What do the developers have to say about that?:idea:
I’m not saying that VLC player is not good - it just doesn’t work with the video acceleration module.
I have found in SMPlayer some VDPAU options in the filters menu and I had read some reports on the Ubuntu forums that the Mplayer - in it’s simple interface mode - works with video acceleration.
The idea is that at this moment I cannot currently play an 1080p HD movie file without stuttering and scene skipping on a normal CPU - I need very powerful CPU that can decode such big data streams faster. In Windows there are the LAV filters that work very well with the Nvidia drivers on a video card that allows offloading the CPU and doing the decoding part: from GTS 2XX to the latest GT 600 cards.
