[MPlayer-users] can't play certain matroska files using vdpau

[Ron Johnson]

On 01/18/2012 04:34 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> Francesco Berni<kurojishi<at>  gmail.com>  writes:
>
>>>> so i'll have to wait until vdpau support that codec
>>>
>>> That might be never (and I believe there are several very different reasons).
>>
>> out of curiosity, why?
>
> Foremost, there is not even an API for hardware-accelerated H264 decoding for
> anything else than 8-bit yuv420p, so even if there were hardware that supported
> the decoding, it would not be immediately supported by MPlayer.
> And since it is not in the Bluray standard, I would be surprised if such
> hardware suddenly surfaces on the consumer market.
>

So why create such videos in the first place?  Are they significantly 
"better" in some way?

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