[MPlayer-users] LAV Filters & mplayer

[Reimar Döffinger]

On 7 Dec 2012, at 15:08, "Tomasz Borsukiewicz" <tomasz.borsukiewicz at trias.pl> wrote:
>>> Is it possible to use LAV Video Decoder with mplayer?
>>> 
>>> I've put following videocodec definition into codec.conf:
>>> 
>>> videocodec lavvideo
>>>  info "LAV Video Decoder"
>>>  status working
>>>  fourcc H264,h264
>>>  fourcc X264,x264
>>>  fourcc avc1,AVC1
>> 
>> h264 decoding should be supported my MPlayer.
>> If you have a file that does not get decoded correctly, please upload!
>> 
>> Carl Eugen
>> 
> 
> LAV Video Decoder supports hardware decoding via NVIDIA CUVID, Intel
> QuickSync and DVXA2.
> It's somewhat similar to commercial CoreAVC.
> 
> I need to run 9 HD movies simultaneously on one machine. They are all udp
> synced.
> Any hardware acceleration is highly appreciated.

You might want to consider Linux + VDPAU, it is certain to be more stable that anything you can hack together in a short time, even if you can get it to work at all.