HD Video Playback With A $20 CPU & $30 GPU On Linux

news · December 11, 2008

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Title: HD Video Playback With A $20 CPU & $30 GPU On Linux ( -at -) Phoronix

Summary: "A month ago NVIDIA had introduced the Video Decode and

Presentation API for Unix (VDPAU) that brought PureVideo-like features

to Linux. Our initial benchmarks of this video decoding API within

NVIDIA's binary driver were quite favorable as it was able to

dramatically cut down on the CPU usage when playing H.264 video files.

To see how well NVIDIA's VDPAU really is though, we have carried out

some more thorough testing now and our hardware consists of a CPU we

purchased for $20 USD and a NVIDIA GeForce graphics card that retails

for just $30. Can this very low-end hardware manage to play high

definition videos under Linux?"

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