[MPlayer-dev-eng] New Video Decode and Presentation API

[Nico Sabbi]

On Friday 14 November 2008 19:36:12 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.
>
[snip]
>
> 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
>
>

thanks. Did you measure -approximately- how much speedup
can be obtained when decoding HD H264 on an modern pc
(core2 or amd cpu) ?