Geeks.com sent us over one of the best video cards on the market today: the GeForce 86000GTS with 256 MB VRAM and a crazy fast 675 MHz engine clock. The card is on the high side of the middle-end graphics cards compared to others available and it's currently selling below $200. In this article we will test the multimedia performance of the card as used in video playback and rendering support rather than its already well-benchmarked multiple times so far and well-known gaming abilities.
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Member since:2005-10-13
Short answer - no, and it doesn't look like they have any interest in sharing the specs needed to make it happen.
MPEG1/2 HW-Decoding works on nVidia hardware using XvMC, but the more advanced codecs which really need it aren't supported.
I don't believe ATI cards support any acceleration at all in Linux.
VIA Technologies company does support hardware acceleration for more than just MPEG-2 for their S3G UniChrome UniChrome Pro graphics chipsets, they support decoding of motion compensation (mo comp), Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform (iDCT), and Variable-Length Decoding (VLD) for MPEG-2, MPEG-4 ASP (H.263), and MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) video.
Member since:2006-05-19
I don't believe ATI cards support any acceleration at all in Linux.
Not sure about Linux but under PC-BSD/FreeBSD 6.2 I can watch fullscreen with my Ati Radeon X600 HD format 1280x740 h264 compressed video without slowdown, only problem is sound a bit lagging- maybe some codec problem (6 channels anyway).
So, no need to spread FUD about "bad" opensource drivers.
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2005-09-19
Does any of the PureVideo stuff work on Linux/Solaris/BSD?
Even without the HDCP encrypted hi-def output, the accelerated decoding and IDCT would be useful for set top boxes and so on. I googled but all I could find were unanswered questions...
Edited 2007-07-19 17:41