NVIDIA Releases New Video API For Linux
Ashmash writes "Phoronix is reporting on a new Linux driver nVidia is about to release that brings PureVideo features to Linux. This video API will reportedly be in nVidia’s 180 series driver for Linux, Solaris, and *BSD. PureVideo has been around for several nVidia product generations, but it’s the first time they’re bringing this feature to these non-Windows operating systems to provide an improved multimedia experience. This new API is named VDPAU, and is described as: ‘The Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix (VDPAU) provides a complete solution for decoding, post-processing, compositing, and displaying compressed or uncompressed video streams. These video streams may be combined (composited) with bitmap content, to implement OSDs and other application user interfaces.’"Read more of this story at Slashdot.