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ONeill
22nd October 2007, 12:01
Hello,

is it possible to use my graphic card and the purevideo technology under linux to play my HD files?

Are there some articles which i can read?

Thanks for help
nm
22nd October 2007, 12:53
No, currently only MPEG-2 acceleration is available through XvMC. And last time I checked, even that won't work with GeForce 8xxx cards.
bond
23rd October 2007, 21:14
moved
Carpo
29th October 2007, 18:29
if you use the nvidia linux driver you should get mpeg-2 support from that libnvidia or something i could swear i saw a few time while compiling things
nm
29th October 2007, 18:37
libXvMC. The specific library used depends on the graphics driver. Intel GPUs and VIA Unichrome also have MPEG-2 decoding support through XvMC. For more information, see: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/XvMC

People at Intel are working on a new video acceleration API (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/vaapi) for X, which will support H.264 and VC-1 decoding. I'd guess that driver support for Intel hardware will probably follow within few years.