NVidia releases 180.11 beta driver with VDPAU improvements

Posted on December 3rd, 2008 by

This is exciting for those people who are already running the combination of a GeForce 8+ card with MythTV SVN/Trunk and 180.06 or 180.08 Nvidia drivers. Those are the components needed to get completely GPU hardware accelerated H.264 video playback.
Now there is a new version of the driver from NVidia and with some interesting changes:

  • Improved VDPAU error detection and reporting.
  • Improved VDPAU support for some video bitstreams.

Exactly what bitsreams they are talking about is unknown.

Additional changes:

  • Added support for the following new GPUs:
    • GeForce 9400M
  • Fixed font corruption on GeForce 6 and 7 series GPUs when the GlyphCache setting is enabled.
  • Fixed a memory leak problem when the GlyphCache setting is enabled.
  • Added support for GVO full-range color.
  • Fixed a problem parsing the monitor sync range X config file options.

It is nice to see the quick pace at which NVidia is working on this driver.

The driver can be downloaded here.

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  5. NVIDIA 100.14.23 Driver Released

Filed under: HDTV, Hardware, Linux, MythTV, NVIDIA, VDPAU

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